Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century: Eleven Case Studies from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Nicholas Mason; Tom Mole

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century

Eleven Case Studies from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474448147

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Maps a coherent subfield of Romantic periodical studies through studying the trailblazing Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine

An introduction by two established scholars that articulates a case for the more sustained, systematic study of Romantic periodicals and justifies the volume’s focus by retracing Blackwood’s emergence as the era’s most innovative, influential and controversial literary magazine.
Features eleven essays modelling how the wide-ranging commentary, reviews and original fiction and verse published in Blackwood’s during its first two decades (1817–37) might meaningfully inform many of the most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism.
Contributes to field-wide bicentenary celebrations and reappraisals both of Blackwood’s and the authors and works – including Shelley’s Frankenstein, Byron’s Don Juan and Keats’s Poems – whose reputations the magazine helped shape.

This book pioneers a subfield of Romantic periodical studies, distinct from its neighbours in adjacent historical periods. Eleven chapters by leading scholars in the field model the range of methodological, conceptual and literary-historical insights to be drawn from careful engagements with one of the age’s landmark literary periodicals, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. Engaging with the research potential unlocked by new digital resources for studying Romantic periodicals, they argue that the wide-ranging commentary, reviews and original fiction and verse published in Blackwood’s during its first two decades (1817–37) should inform many of the most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Book History, Bibliography and Archival Method
Chapter 1 Rethinking the Periodical Medium in the Digital Archive Jon Klancher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2 Reading Medicine in Blackwood’s Megan Coyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Part II Aesthetics, Innovation and Taste
Chapter 3 ‘A Separate and Distinct Tribunal’: Libel Law and Reviewing in Early Issues of Blackwood’s Tom Mole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 4 Performing Personae in Blackwood’s and Romantic Periodicals Christine Woody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Part III Reviewing Politics and the Politics of Reviewing
Chapter 5 Maga as Medium: Cockneys in Context Mark Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 6 ‘Some Grand Secreter’: Secrecy and Exposure in Blackwood’s Mark Schoenfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter 7 Blackwood’s Pastoralism and the Highland Clearances Alexander Dick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Part IV Gender, Race and Romantic Periodicals
Chapter 8 Crashing the Blackwood’s Boys’ Club: Caroline Bowles and Women’s Place in Romantic-era Periodicals Nicholas Mason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 9 Mary Prince ‘At Home’ in Blackwood’s: Maga’s Origins and the End of Slavery Caroline McCracken-Flesher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Part V Blackwoodian Genealogies
Chapter 10 The Politics and Aesthetics of Extraction: Cultural Interventions in Blackwood’s and the Imperial Kristin Flieger Samuelian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Chapter 11 The Challenge of Longevity: Blackwood’s as a Post-Romantic Periodical Joanne Shattock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474448147