Paper pellets : British literary culture after Waterloo /
Richard Cronin.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- viii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-255) and index.
Two duels -- Two dinners -- Personalities -- Flesh-coloured silk -- Remembering peebles -- Mr. Knight's best small capitals -- Pistols and horsewhips -- Disunity of mind : the novel as magazine -- Practical asyndeton : the poem as magazine -- Cruel mockeries -- Jack and Gill -- Two cultures.
This study begins with two fatal duels as an introduction to a literary period best defined by its antagonisms. Exploring three publishing phenomena of the age; the novels of Walter Scott, Byron's Don Juan, and the new literary magazines, it attempts a reconfiguration of our understanding of literary culture after Waterloo.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century. Literature publishing--History--Great Britain--19th century. Dueling--History--Great Britain--19th century.