William Hazlitt, The Periodical Press

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Joanne Shattock ◽  
Joanne Wilkes ◽  
Katherine Newey ◽  
Valerie Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Periodical Press ◽  
William Hazlitt

Hazlitt, De Quincey, and the Politics of Slang

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (302) ◽  
pp. 921-936
Author(s):  
Roxanne Covelo
Keyword(s):  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
William Hazlitt ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Quarterly Review

Abstract Literary periodicals like the Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Magazine were the crucible in which Romantic reputations were made and unmade, debated, compared, and sometimes cruelly slandered. Today, it is often the cruellest of these reviews that survive, cited smilingly by modern critics to demonstrate the originality of the authors in question and their reviewers’ ineptitude or resistance to change. The study of William Hazlitt (who receives what is admittedly some of the harshest treatment of the Romantic periodical press) is often approached in this manner. But without sufficient context, the mere recounting of these attacks may elide the subtleties of Romantic-era reviewing and its particular rules of engagement. The present study attempts a more even-handed approach. By focusing on a specific criticism of Hazlitt’s work—namely, his alleged over-use of slang—and by tracing this criticism through its different iterations across magazines, it provides a more nuanced account of Hazlitt’s reception and, by extension, of the professional culture of reviewing. To the same end, the study also considers the writing of Hazlitt’s contemporary and fellow essayist Thomas De Quincey, whose own use of slang is more frequent and more conspicuous than Hazlitt’s but who, for reasons both professional and political, is spared the same critical vitriol.

Coleridge: Lectures on Shakespeare (1811-1819)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Keyword(s):  
William Hazlitt ◽  
Background Context

This book comprises a freshly composed edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1811–12 Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton and 1818–19 Lectures on Shakespeare. Coleridge is a foundational figure in Shakespeare criticism, and remains to this day one of the most incisive and best. The book provides a background context into Coleridge's lectures on Shakespeare, and looks into Coleridge's life and career, giving special attention to his position as a lecturer as well as the general content of his lectures. The book also explores Coleridge's relationships with August Wilhelm Schegel and William Hazlitt and their own scholarship on Shakespeare's oeuvre.

Main Forms of Propagandistic Activities of the Right-Wing Parties (1904–1914)

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 656-676
Author(s):  
Igor V. Omeliyanchuk
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article examines the main forms and methods of agitation and propagandistic activities of monarchic parties in Russia in the beginning of the 20th century. Among them the author singles out such ones as periodical press, publication of books, brochures and flyers, organization of manifestations, religious processions, public prayers and funeral services, sending deputations to the monarch, organization of public lectures and readings for the people, as well as various philanthropic events. Using various forms of propagandistic activities the monarchists aspired to embrace all social groups and classes of the population in order to organize all-class and all-estate political movement in support of the autocracy. While they gained certain success in promoting their ideology, the Rights, nevertheless, lost to their adversaries from the radical opposition camp, as the monarchists constrained by their conservative ideology, could not promise immediate social and political changes to the population, and that fact was excessively used by their opponents. Moreover, the ideological paradigm of the Right camp expressed in the “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality” formula no longer agreed with the social and economic realities of Russia due to modernization processes that were underway in the country from the middle of the 19th century.

REFLECTION OF THE CURRENT STATE OF PUBLICISTIC JOURNALISM GENRES IN THE SLOVAK MEDIA ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Kvetanová
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Logical Analysis ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Current State ◽  
Journalistic Practice ◽  
Opinion Journalism

The submitted study addresses the topic of the current state of the opinion journalism and its genres in the Slovak periodical press. The author draws attention to the question of classification of the opinion journalism of a rational and emotional type from the genre categorization point of view and, simultaneously, reflects on its application in the present journalistic practice. This brings a certain rate of confrontation between the defined theoretical premises and their subsequent practical (non-)implementation. The main objective of the study is to clarify the presence of genres of analytical and literary opinion journalism stated by media theory in the environment of the Slovak periodicals. Presentation of the basic terminological axis and the related explication of journalism genres included in the opinion journalism constitute the secondary objectives of the paper. For the purposes of achieving the set objectives, the author uses methods of logical analysis of text in combination with discourse analysis. Similarly, she predicts the evident presence of the phenomenon of hybridization in the Slovak journalistic practice.

Balaam and Bedlam

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Romantic Poetry ◽  
Edinburgh Review ◽  
Moral Management ◽  
Quarterly Review ◽  
Forensic Rhetoric

This chapter shows how contemporary reviews of Romantic poetry, and the hostile rhetoric of insanity they used, both stigmatized and popularized the Romantic mad poet. A forensic rhetoric, drawing directly on medical ideas of partial insanity and critical ‘moral management’, was deployed by the periodical press in the first quarter of the nineteenth century—first the quarterlies like the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review, then later new capricious and aggressive magazines such as Blackwood’s, and more quotidian or staid journals—against all of the major Romantic poets. The chapter shows, moreover, how the polemical terms in which Romantic poets were dismissed also held the seeds of their later canonization. The periodical critics, while they used slurs of meaningless insanity to dismiss poetry for political and reactionary ends, also spread the fame of ‘mad genius’, turning a marginalized opinion on the link between creativity and disorder into a cultural phenomenon.

The Campaign for Realism in the New York Periodical Press

2019 ◽  
pp. 285-301
Author(s):  
Mark J. Noonan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Massive Growth ◽  
Realism In Literature

This chapter demonstrates that the fight for greater realism in literature and life was long-lasting and transpired not on a single front but across many battlefields involving a wide variety of actors. Often, war itself was the impetus, first in the rewriting of the “facts” and significance of the Civil War and later as a means of response to the masculine bluster and bloodlust wrought by the Spanish-American War. The gender and class wars of the 1880s and 1890s were also relevant to this embattled genre, as were the effects of industrialization and immigration, which led to the massive growth of New York at this time, where so many of the newspapers and magazines promoting the various strands of realism were based. New York, war, and social issues were all entangled in the emergence of this genre, as numerous New York authors and artists sought to make sense of modern America and mold it to their own visions.

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