Description:
With its exploration of magazines and imperialism as a context for Romantic writing, culture, and aesthetics, this book will appeal not only to scholars of book history and reading cultures but to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history.
Review Quotes:
Karen Fang's Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs makes an original and important contribution to Romantic criticism by highlighting the importance of the connections between several disparate fields of inquiry: periodical writing, postcolonial theory, and print culture approaches generally. In doing so Fang highlights the ways that a rhetoric of empire enabled authors to situate themselves in a rapidly changing technological era by aligning their relation to British periodicals with broader cultural and geopolitical debates.
--Paul Keen, Carleton University, author of The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere