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This chapter explores print periodicity as affect—that is, the feelings associated with the recurrence of a publication in time and, in particular, the political dimensions of those feelings—with reference to William Hone’s The Every-Day Book (first published as a serial publication in 1825). To understand the distinctiveness of Hone’s achievement, it is necessary to contextualise it in terms of the dual function of the periodical in marking time and acting as a magazine or repository for individual documents or papers. An amalgam of the almanac, the calendar, the antiquarian miscellany, and the literary journal, The Every-Day Book was indebted to the long tradition of documenting contemporary culture by means of ephemeral print, which it mediated in ways that made that tradition accessible to English reading audiences in ways it had never been before.
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Russell, G. (2019). Loose Numbers: The Affect and Politics of Periodical Time in William Hone’s The Every-Day Book. In: Macleod, J., Christie, W., Denney, P. (eds) Politics and Emotions in Romantic Periodicals. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32467-4_6
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