The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a product of and response to a culture that was metropolitan in size and heterogeneity. This book analyses a literary genre that made creative use of a cultural confusion which elsewhere provoked anxiety.
The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a produ...
