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Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture.(Book Review)

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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20040922
Author:Morrison, Robert S.

Kim Wheatley, ed. Romantic Periodicals and Print Culture

(Frank Cass, 2003), ix + 173 $96.95

Thomas Carlyle once swore that he would rather "wash his face in a dirty puddle" than write for the periodical press, and while he also exploited the medium with great savvy when he published Sartor Resartus in eight instalments in Fraser's Magazine (1833-34), the notion has long persisted that periodical publication was a degraded and demeaning form driven by commerce and novelty, and that (then as now) important writers published books while lesser lights produced articles for ...

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