Titlebook: Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay; Transatlantic Retros Richard Squibbs Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a divis

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Reviewing a Genre,tury’s signal contribution to world literature. This might be surprising to generations of critics trained to read these essays mainly as passing lessons in the complacent morality undergirding an emergent liberal-bourgeois social order in England. Beginning in the 1790s, however, readers on both si

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,London’s Characters,radition. Many of these writers noted that serial publication itself made the genre something new in literary history; today’s critics likewise often cite the periodical press as a technical innovation that helped usher British culture into full-fledged modernity.. But late Enlightenment critics gen

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Public Prospects, their critics perceived as the final failure of the genre to create prominent and sustainable literary publics. Essay personae like Mr Town and Fitz-Adam, and a little later the Lounger and his forebear in the ., address readers as potential members of what is essentially a counterpublic. Where the

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Scottish Variations, predecessor. A correspondent in . 14 recalls how, after being prompted by the series’ editor to contribute some essays, he ‘looked at the Spectators, which stood, neatly bound in gilt, in the front of [his] book-press’ for inspiration.. He then sat down to write in ‘the fervour of imagination’ thes

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,Irving’s Knickerbocker in Retrospect, on the British model, .. Irving was also, like Dennie, a recalcitrant law student who barely passed the bar exam and muddled through several years of undistinguished practice before abandoning it to write full-time. The efforts of the . circle, in fact, made an immediate impression on Dennie, who f

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Afterword,ions and parameters are familiar enough: I read the periodical essay as an expressly public-making genre; ‘rise and fall’ narratives of the Enlightenment essay serial have been with us since the first modern studies of the genre; and English critics in particular have for two centuries invoked the A

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