Contributors to the Quarterly Review: A History, 1809-25 (History of the Book)

This monograph is the second of two related titles about the "Quarterly Review" in "Pickering & Chatto's" series and "The History of the Book".The "Quarterly Review" was a commercially successful literary and political review. It owed its success to the complex interactions between several competing elements: the material conditions of periodical publishing at the turn of the nineteenth century; the entrepreneurial ambitions of John Murray, the journal's publisher; the careerist imperatives of "The Quarterly's" editors and contributors; and the propagandist goals of its political backers in government. John Murray paid his writers handsomely and as the journal built up a strong reputation, it advanced its contributors' careers. The "Quarterly Review" played a leading role in dignifying writing for the market and made journalism a viable way to earn a living.A large amount of primary material relating to the journal survives, so the "Quarterly Review" presents a rare opportunity to Romantic scholars to test the truth of Marilyn Butler's claim that the early nineteenth-century periodical is the matrix for democratization of public writing and reading.

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