Literary Critics and Reviewers in Early 19th-Century Britain

The nineteenth century saw the growth of several major magazines devoted to the reviewing of contemporary literature. The new popular importance that literature was beginning to enjoy—in particular, the novel form—inevitably led to a change in the way literature was discussed and perceived. Three of the major reviews of the period that reflected this new outlook are discussed in Literary Critics and Reviewers in Early 19th-Century Britain (originally published in 1983)—the Whig Edinburgh Review