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Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
aspired to rise above the so-called 'age of personality,' a new
culture of politicized print gossip and personal attacks.
Nevertheless, Southey, Coleridge, and other Romantic-era figures
such as Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the
explorer John Ross became enmeshed in lively feuds with the major
periodicals of the day, the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly
Review. Kim Wheatley focuses on feuds from the second and third
decades of the nineteenth century, suggesting that by this time the
vituperative rhetoric of the Edinburgh and the Quarterly had
developed into what Coleridge called 'a habit of malignity.'
Attending to the formal strategies of the reviewers' surprisingly
creative prose, she traces how her chosen feuds take on lives of
their own, branching off into other print media, including the
weekly press and monthly magazines. Ultimately, Wheatley shows,
these hostile exchanges incorporated literary genres and Romantic
themes such as the idealized poetic self, the power of the
supernatural, and the quest for the sublime. By turning episodes of
print warfare into stories of transfiguration, the feuds thus
unexpectedly contributed to the emergence of Romanticism.
Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
aspired to rise above the so-called 'age of personality,' a new
culture of politicized print gossip and personal attacks.
Nevertheless, Southey, Coleridge, and other Romantic-era figures
such as Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the
explorer John Ross became enmeshed in lively feuds with the major
periodicals of the day, the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly
Review. Kim Wheatley focuses on feuds from the second and third
decades of the nineteenth century, suggesting that by this time the
vituperative rhetoric of the Edinburgh and the Quarterly had
developed into what Coleridge called 'a habit of malignity.'
Attending to the formal strategies of the reviewers' surprisingly
creative prose, she traces how her chosen feuds take on lives of
their own, branching off into other print media, including the
weekly press and monthly magazines. Ultimately, Wheatley shows,
these hostile exchanges incorporated literary genres and Romantic
themes such as the idealized poetic self, the power of the
supernatural, and the quest for the sublime. By turning episodes of
print warfare into stories of transfiguration, the feuds thus
unexpectedly contributed to the emergence of Romanticism.
Building on a revival of scholarly interest in the cultural effects
of early 19th-century periodicals, the essays in this collection
treat periodical writing as intrinsically worthy of attention not a
mere backdrop to the emergence of British Romanticism but a site in
which Romantic ideals were challenged, modified, and developed.
Contributors to the volume discuss a range of different
periodicals, from the elite Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews,
through William Cobbett's populist weekly newspaper Two-Penny
Trash, to the miscellaneous monthly magazines typified by
Blackwood's. While some contributors to the volume approach the
phenomenon of Romanticism within periodical culture from a more
materialist standpoint than others, several elaborate upon recent
intersections between Romantic studies and gender studies.
Building on a revival of scholarly interest in the cultural effects
of early 19th-century periodicals, the essays in this collection
treat periodical writing as intrinsically worthy of attention not a
mere backdrop to the emergence of British Romanticism but a site in
which Romantic ideals were challenged, modified, and developed.
Contributors to the volume discuss a range of different
periodicals, from the elite Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews,
through William Cobbett's populist weekly newspaper Two-Penny
Trash, to the miscellaneous monthly magazines typified by
Blackwood's. While some contributors to the volume approach the
phenomenon of Romanticism within periodical culture from a more
materialist standpoint than others, several elaborate upon recent
intersections between Romantic studies and gender studies.
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