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The Metropolitan Magazine - Softcover

Saunders And Otley

 
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Synopsis

The Metropolitan Magazine. A compact, multi-genre installment from a mid-19th-century London periodical, Part 2 of a four-part issue. It assembles fiction, travel writing, poetry, and classical translation to present an interwoven panorama: The Storm and the Conflict (set in London and across France and Ireland), The Grande Fête de la Fraternité (Caen, Havre, Paris), verses and shorter pieces, Scenes in Spain: Adelaida de Salvador (No. 2), and Alcestis (Introduction and excerpt). The Paris letters from 1848 frame revolutionary Paris, while the Alcestis introduction probes fidelity, hospitality, piety, and the moral weight of self-sacrifice. The issue also includes serialized fiction, travelogue, mock-epic verse, and critical notices reflecting the era’s cross-genre magazine culture. The text surveys social life, politics, empire, and national identity with a focus on virtue under public scrutiny, wealth versus happiness, and the tension between private longing and public propriety in Victorian London.

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