Charles Lamb, Elia and the London Magazine : Metropolitan Muse

Name: Charles Lamb, Elia and the London Magazine:Metropolitan Muse
ISBN: 9781315653310

doi:10.4324/9781315653310

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Charles Lamb, Elia and the London Magazine

ABSTRACT

The inherent 'metropolitanism' of writing for a Romantic-era periodical is here explored through the Elia articles that Charles Lamb wrote for the London Magazine.

Charles Lamb, Elia and the London Magazine

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|35 pages

Consuming the Periodical Text: Hunt, Hazlitt and the Anxiety of Cockneyism

chapter 2|32 pages

Domesticating the Flaneur: Coleridge, De Quincey and the Forms of Metropolitanism

chapter 3|33 pages

The Great Wen and the Rural Gothic

chapter 4|28 pages

Utility and Pity: Wordsworth, Blake and Egan, and the Act of Charity

chapter 5|29 pages

Lamb, Theatricality and the Fool

chapter |8 pages

Conclusion