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Literary Criticism General

John Murray's Quarterly Review

Letters 1807-1843

edited by Jonathan Cutmore

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2019
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781786941909
    Publish Date
    Jun 2019
    List Price
    $169.50
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781800854703
    Publish Date
    Mar 2022
    List Price
    $55.00

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Description

This scrupulously edited volume is the first edition of letters specifically related to the important British journal the Quarterly Review. Included are letters by notable literary and political figures such as Sir Walter Scott, George Canning, William Gifford, John Gibson Lockhart, and John Wilson Croker. The product of rigorous scholarship and careful attention to researchers' requirements, the edition will interest students across all academic levels. The selection is comprehensive enough to provide valuable insights into Romantic and early Victorian literary and political history, but selective enough to be pertinent to a specialised readership interested in periodical journalism and publishing history.

Informed by up-to-date scholarship and fresh research, the volume's substantive introduction discusses the sources and dimensions of the Quarterly Review's commercial success and cultural authority. It also provides a compelling account of tensions between the publisher's commercial and his editors' political and literary motivations. Students of reading and reception history will be interested in the discussion of press responses and the sociological make-up of the journal's readership. The authoritative notes to the volume provide supporting information on the cultural and historical context.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Jonathan Cutmore is a former Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Toronto.