Conflicted Life: William Jerdan, 1782-1869 - London Editor, Author & Critic - Hardcover

Matoff MA, Susan

9781845194178: Conflicted Life: William Jerdan, 1782-1869 - London Editor, Author & Critic

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845194179 ISBN 13: 9781845194178

Publisher: Sussex Academic Press, 2010

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Review:

"From his central position within the notoriously factional journalistic culture of the Regency and early-Victorian period, Jerdan became a highly visible arbiter of literary taste ... Matoff provides a balanced and broadly sympathetic interpretation of an intriguing figure... [and] valuable material for scholars of Landon [L.E.L.] This is a thoroughly researched academic biography ... a valuable repository of information for readers interested in the history of literary periodicals during the early Victorian period." --Richard Salmon, University of Leeds, Victorian Studies, Vol. 54 No. 3

"This important book will interest those concerned with publishing history in the first half of the nineteenth century ...Matoff has done an extraordinary amount of research to create a full sense of what it meant to be an editor of the leading weekly literary journal, [Literary Gazette, editor 1817-1850]. This book should be consulted by anyone interested in the contexts and consequences of English Romanticism. Matoff and Sussex Academic Press (for the courage to publish such a long book of 659 pages with 500 words per page) earn excellent marks here." --Professor Charles E. Robinson, University of Delaware, Keats-Shelly Journal, Vol. LXI

From his central position within the notoriously factional journalistic culture of the Regency and early-Victorian period, Jerdan became a highly visible arbiter of literary taste Matoff provides a balanced and broadly sympathetic interpretation of an intriguing figure [and] valuable material for scholars of Landon [L.E.L.] This is a thoroughly researched academic biography a valuable repository of information for readers interested in the history of literary periodicals during the early Victorian period. Richard Salmon, University of Leeds, Victorian Studies, Vol. 54 No. 3"

This important book will interest those concerned with publishing history in the first half of the nineteenth century Matoff has done an extraordinary amount of research to create a full sense of what it meant to be an editor of the leading weekly literary journal, [Literary Gazette, editor 1817 1850]. This book should be consulted by anyone interested in the contexts and consequences of English Romanticism. Matoff and Sussex Academic Press (for the courage to publish such a long book of 659 pages with 500 words per page) earn excellent marks here. Professor Charles E. Robinson, University of Delaware, Keats Shelly Journal, Vol. LXI"

About the Author:

Susan Matoff is an independent scholar, with an MA in English Literature from the University of London (Fact and Fairy Tale in the Novels of George Gissing). In conjunction with a career in marketing and management of a mental health charity, she has published three local history studies for the Bushey Museum in Hertfordshire, and undertook research for an Open University history course -- both investigations leading her to the discovery of William Jerdan.

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