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Jennie Batchelor, The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-4744-8766-5; open access (epdf).
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July 2, 2024
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article
Volume
25
Start Page
120
End Page
124
Journal
Abstract
No better manifesto of methodological and critical practice could summarise Jennie Batchelor’s latest scholarly achievement, The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History: a thorough, ambitious study and a substantial evidence-based roadmap of late-modern English periodical culture. It is so fascinating, and so full of information, that at times the results of this research can read like a novel. The vast amount of textual and non-textual media analysed in these pages—an imposing corpus running probably into several million words, plus countless plates and illustrations, produced over the magazine’s extraordinary 62-year run, and handled with enviable confidence and cleverness by Batchelor—is presented from the dual perspective, both wide angle view and close up.
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No better manifesto of methodological and critical practice could summarise Jennie Batchelor’s latest scholarly achievement, The Lady’s Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History: a thorough, ambitious study and a substantial evidence-based roadmap of late-modern English periodical culture. It is so fascinating, and so full of information, that at times the results of this research can read like a novel. The vast amount of textual and non-textual media analysed in these pages—an imposing corpus running probably into several million words, plus countless plates and illustrations, produced over the magazine’s extraordinary 62-year run, and handled with enviable confidence and cleverness by Batchelor—is presented from the dual perspective, both wide angle view and close u p.
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