Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine: ‘An Unprecedented Phenomenon’

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by  Robert Morrison Queen’s National Scholar, Daniel S. Roberts (eds.)

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Romanticism and
Blackwood’s Magazine
‘An Unprecedented Phenomenon’
Edited by
Robert Morrison
and
Daniel S. Roberts
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Daniel S. Roberts 2013
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WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, editor, Blackwood’s Edinburgh
Magazine, 1817–1834
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations xi
Note on the Referencing of Blackwood’s Articles xiii
Notes on Contributors xiv
‘A character so various, and yet so indisputably its own’:
A Passage to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 1
Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
Part I Blackwood’s and the Periodical Press
1 Beginning Blackwood’s: The Right Mix of Dulce and Ùtile 23
Philip Flynn
2 John Gibson Lockhart and Blackwood’s: Shaping the
Romantic Periodical Press 35
Thomas Richardson
3 From Gluttony to Justified Sinning: Confessional
Writing in Blackwood’s and the London Magazine 47
David Higgins
4 Camaraderie and Conflict: De Quincey and Wilson
on Enemy Lines 57
Robert Morrison
5 Selling Blackwood’s Magazine, 1817–1834 69
David Finkelstein
Part II Blackwood’s Culture and Criticism
6 Blackwood’s ‘Personalities’ 89
Tom Mole
7 Communal Reception, Mary Shelley, and the
‘Blackwood’s School’ of Criticism 101
Nicholas Mason
8 Blackwoodian Allusion and the Culture of Miscellaneity 113
David Stewart
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9 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in the Scientific
Culture of Early Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh 125
William Christie
10 The Art and Science of Politics in Blackwood’s
Edinburgh Magazine, c. 1817–1841 137
Duncan Kelly
11 Prosing Poetry: Blackwood’s and Generic Transposition,
1820–1840 149
Jason Camlot
Part III Blackwood’s Fictions
12 Blackwood’s and the Boundaries of the Short Story 163
Tim Killick
13 The Edinburgh of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
and James Hogg’s Fiction 175
Gillian Hughes
14 The Taste for Violence in Blackwood’s Magazine 187
Mark Schoenfield
Part IV Blackwood’s at Home
15 John Wilson and Regency Authorship 203
Richard Cronin
16 John Wilson and Sport 215
John Strachan
17 William Maginn and the Blackwood’s ‘Preface’ of 1826 227
David E. Latané, Jr.
18 All Work and All Play: Felicia Hemans’s Edinburgh Noctes 239
Nanora Sweet
Part V Blackwood’s Abroad
19 Mediating Indian Literature in the Age of Empire:
Blackwood’s and Orientalism 255
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
20 Tales of the Colonies: Blackwood’s, Provincialism, and
British Interests Abroad 267
Anthony Jarrells
Selected Bibliography 279
Index 281
List of Illustrations
Frontispiece: William Blackwood, engraving by Frederick Huth,
reproduced from Margaret Oliphant, Annals of a Publishing
House (1897) v
5.1 Front cover, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, February 1818 71
5.2 Front cover, Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, August 1817 72
5.3 Front cover, Edinburgh Monthly Review, June 1819 74
5.4 Advertisement for Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk,
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, May 1819 75
5.5 ‘Blackwood’s Monthly Advertiser’ front sheet,
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, February 1830 79
5.6 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine advertising
rates, 1832 80
5.7 Advertising page from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine,
July 1823 82
5.8 Rowland’s Kalydor and Macassar Oil advertisements,
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, August 1823 83
7.1 ‘The Lake Poets’, Richard Seymour (1832) 103
14.1 Pierce Egan, Recollections of John Thurtell 197
18.1 C hiefswood 241
18.2 M illburn Tower 246
18.3 4 5 George Street 248
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