Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine

JASON CAMLOT Associate Professor and Chair of English, Concordia University in Montréal, Canada WILLIAM CHRISTIE Chair in English Literature, University of Sydney, Australia RICHARD CRONIN Professor of Romantic and Victorian Poetry, University of Glasgow, UK DAVID FINKELSTEINM Dean of the School of Humanities, University of Dundee, UK PHILIP FLYNN Professor of English, University of Delaware, USA DAVID HIGGINS Lecturer in English Literature, University of Leeds, UK GILLIAN HUGHES University of Stirling, UK ANTHONY JARRELLS University of South Carolina, USA DUNCAN KELLY University Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Cambridge, UK TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK DAVID LATANE Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA NICHOLAS MASON Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, USA TOM MOLE Associate Professor of English, McGill University in Montreal, Canada THOMAS C. RICHARDSON Professor of English, Mississippi University for Women, USA MARK SCHOENFELD Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA DAVID STEWART Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Northumbria University, UK JOHN STRACHAN Professor of English Literature, Northumbria University, UK NANORA SWEET University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA

• 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 Ùtile; 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.Latané, 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

“This brilliant collection of essays is stimulating and useful for anyone with an interest in Romantic print culture. Such is the clarity and insight of each essay that scholars of all stages will find thought-provoking readings of many aspects of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. … this is an informative and engaging book which prompts our own re-thinking.” (Meiko O’Halloran, The BARS Review, Issue 48, Autumn, 2016)"This much-needed volume reminds us not only why Blackwood's was the most influential periodical publication of the time, but also how its writers, writings, and critical agendas continue to shape so many of the scholarly concerns of Romantic studies in the twenty-first century." Charles Mahoney, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut, USA"...perhaps the most nuanced portrait yet of the formative years of oneof Britain's most influential periodicals ...both a pleasure to read and so valuable to periodical print culture research of the nineteenth century... this project is ambitious in scope, meticulously researched and edited, thoroughly and accurately indexed, and critically important to our ongoing examination of Blackwood's." Charles Snodgrass, Nineteenth-Century Contexts"Overall, the collection shows the innovativeness of Blackwood's and the achievement of an able man together with a tight group of authors who shared his vision, ambition, and goals in a highly competitive environment. Above all, the essays highlight that Blackwood's offered a platform for lively dialogue between its own authors and those of rival periodicals. With its cross-references, this collection is a platform for similar dialogues and conversations among twenty-first-century scholars on this fascinating, influential, and highly innovative nineteenth-century periodical." Isabel Seidel, Victorian Periodicals Review"The essays in Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine are remarkably consistent in quality, length, and design .Each essay succeeds in making a distinct point about Blackwood's and tying it explicitly or implicitly to the editors' goal of revealing the breadth, depth, and complexity of Maga's conservatism." Regina Hewitt, Victorians Institute Journal