History of publishing

Written by: David H. Tucker Last Updated

Literary and scientific magazines

The critical review developed strongly in the 19th century, often as an adjunct to a book-publishing business. It became a forum for the questions of the day—political, literary, and artistic—to which many great figures contributed. There were also many magazines with a literary flavour, and these serialized some of the best fiction of the period. A few marked the beginning of specialization—e.g., in science.

Britain was particularly rich in reviews, beginning with the Edinburgh Review (1802–1929), founded by a trio of gifted young critics: Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham, and Sydney Smith. The high and independent ... (100 of 47,252 words)

(Please limit to 900 characters)
(Please limit to 900 characters)

Or click Continue to submit anonymously:

Continue
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/482597/history-of-publishing/28689/Literary-and-scientific-magazines
www.britannica.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-52
31834
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:DH5DXZEPVWDT5GHR6ETSZ2YDYO5SCIT5
<urn:uuid:9e98f30e-9be6-4cd8-a0a3-dfc95d63e608>
2014-12-18T16:25:35Z
38.69.47.71
sha1:GYVJ2RVVAKVK5RKVNP4NBTHKV7UN5UKN
<urn:uuid:c3347a76-6033-4fc7-9b78-0f5ca96fd148>
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/482597/history-of-publishing/28689/Literary-and-scientific-magazines
response
<urn:uuid:04b9552c-fcfa-4b6d-8512-e8f4ce998123>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-52
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for December 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf