This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 'A character so various, and yet so indisputably its own': A Passage to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; R.Morrison & D.S.Roberts PART I: BLACKWOOD'S AND THE PERIODICAL PRESS Beginning Blackwood's: The Right Mix of Dulce and Utile; P.Flynn John Gibson Lockhart and Blackwood's: Shaping the Romantic Periodical Press; T.Richardson From Gluttony to Justified Sinning: Confessional Writing in Blackwood's and the London Magazine; D.Higgins Camaraderie and Conflict: De Quincey and Wilson on Enemy Lines; R.Morrison Selling Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-1834; D.Finkelstein PART II: BLACKWOOD'S CULTURE AND CRITICISM Blackwood's 'Personalities'; T.Mole Communal Reception, Mary Shelley, and the 'Blackwood's School' of Criticism; N.Mason Blackwoodian Allusion and the Culture of Miscellaneity; D.Stewart Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in the Scientific Culture of Early Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh; W.Christie The Art and Science of Politics in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, c. 1817-1841; D.Kelly Prosing Poetry: Blackwood's and Generic Transposition, 1820-1840; J.Camlot PART III: BLACKWOOD'S FICTIONS Blackwood's and the Boundaries of the Short Story; T.Killick The Edinburgh of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and James Hogg's Fiction; G.Hughes 'The Taste for Violence in Blackwood's Magazine'; M.Schoenfield PART IV: BLACKWOOD'S AT HOME John Wilson and Regency Authorship; R.Cronin John Wilson and Sport; J.Strachan William Maginn and the Blackwood's 'Preface' of 1826; D.E.Latane, Jr. All Work and All Play: Felicia Hemans's Edinburgh Noctes; N.Sweet PART V: BLACKWOOD'S ABROAD Imagining India in Early Blackwood's; D.S.Roberts Tales of the Colonies: Blackwood's, Provincialism, and British Interests Abroad; A.Jarrells Selected Bibliography Index
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