Parodying editorial and journalistic styles in "Warreniana"
Another (re)vision of romanticism
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Warreniana, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, New Monthly Magazine, The Times, John Bull, journal parodyAbstract
Warreniana (1824) by W. F. Deacon presents a collection of literary parodies that vary between those focusing on specific poets and their works ("poet parody") and those parodying specific styles of the Romantic press ("journal parodies"). The latter are the particular focus of this study, the former, along with the structure and nature of Warreniana, having already been analysed in a previously published study. Deacon gives more coverage to the parody of Romantic authors than to the journalistic or editorial style in Warreniana, but he also imitates them. He thus includes four parts devoted to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, New Monthly Magazine, The Times and John Bull. It is these parodies together with the parody of Gifford’s editorial style that are analysed, thus completing the study of Deacon's parodic artillery to offer another picture of Romanticism parallel to the more canonical literature of the movement. In order to better understand this parody in Warreniana, and its relevance in Romanticism, we will start from the relationship between parody and the press and the analysis of significant terms such as "puff", framed in the journalistic context of marketing strategies, which is also very present in Warreniana.
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