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oa Chapter 4. Metadata mining

The reception and translation of foreign cultures in British Romantic review periodicals (1809–1827)

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Building on a quantitative survey that charts the presence of foreign cultures in the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review, this essay pursues a closer understanding of the ways in which British Romantic review periodicals engaged in intercultural mediation. After a brief introduction of the project, the essay zooms in on some of the methodological issues related to the construction and analysis of the database. As it is the first time that such quantitative research is being undertaken, particular attention is given to the difficult balance between distant reading of metadata and close readings of specific review articles, the selection of a representative corpus, and the position of the database within existing research.

  • Affiliations: 1: University of Leuven, Flemish Research Council

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References

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    2010 Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs: Periodical Culture and Post-Napoleonic Authorship. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press.
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     [Google Scholar]
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    2009 “Looking Abroad: Two Edinburgh Journals in the Early Nineteenth Century”. Forum for Modern Language Studies46 (1): 2–15. 10.1093/fmls/cqp122
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    1987 The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790–1832. Madison: The University of Winconsin Press.
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    eds. 1949 German Literature in British Magazines 1750–1860. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
     [Google Scholar]
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    2004 British Romanticism and Continental Influences: Writing in an Age of Europhobia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 10.1057/9780230512207
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    2000 Literary Magazines and British Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  38. Penso, Andrea
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     https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108669900 [Google Scholar]
  41. Saglia, Diego and Ian Haywood
    eds. 2017 Spain in British Romanticism, 1800–1840. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
     [Google Scholar]
  42. Schoenfield, Mark
    2009 British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The “Literary Lower Empire”. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 10.1057/9780230617995
     https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617995 [Google Scholar]
  43. Shattock, Joanne
    1989 Politics and Reviewers: the Edinburgh and the Quarterly in the Early Victorian Age. Leicester: Leicester University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  44. Smiles, Samuel
    1891 A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray. London: John Murray.
     [Google Scholar]
  45. Southey, Robert
    1812 “Lives of the French Revolutionists”. Quarterly Review7 (14): 412–438.
     [Google Scholar]
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     [Google Scholar]
  47. 1856 Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey. Edited by John Wood Warter . London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
     [Google Scholar]
  48. 2013 The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Four: 1810–1815. Edited by Ian Packer and Lynda Pratt . Romantic Circles Electronic Edition. https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/southey_letters/Part_Four/index.html.
     [Google Scholar]
  49. Stewart, David
    2011 Romantic Magazines and Metropolitan Literary Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
     [Google Scholar]
  50. Stray, Christopher
    2007 “Politics, Culture and Scholarship: Classics in the Quarterly Review ”. InConservatism and the Quarterly Review, edited by Jonathan Cutmore , 87–106. London: Pickering & Chatto.
     [Google Scholar]
  51. Tomalin, Marcus
    2016 The French Language and British Literature, 1756–1830. London and New York, Routledge. 10.4324/9781315557991
     https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315557991 [Google Scholar]
  52. Toremans, Tom
    2017 “Pseudotranslation from Blackwood’s to Carlyle: Dousterswivel, von Lauerwinkel, Teufelsdröckh”. InAuthorizing Translation, edited by Michelle Woods , 80–95. London and New York: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  53. Walsh, Robert
    1809 “Biographie Moderne”. Edinburgh Review14 (27): 211–243.
     [Google Scholar]
  54. Wohlgemut, Esther
    2009 Romantic Cosmopolitanism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 10.1057/9780230250994
     https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250994 [Google Scholar]

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