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The bicentenary of the foundation of the Edinburgh Review has provided the foremost scholars in the field with the opportunity to re-examine the pervasive significance of the most important literary review of the Romantic period. These essays assess the controversial role played by the Edinburgh Review in the development of Romantic literature and explore its sense of 'Scottishness' in the context of early nineteenth-century British culture.
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Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: M.Demata & D.Wu Francis Jeffrey and the Scottish Critical Tradition; P.Flynn The Edinburgh Review and the Representation of Scotland; F.Stafford A Great Theatre of Outrage and Disorder: Figuring Ireland in the Edinburgh Review , 1802-29; T.Webb Prejudiced Knowledge: Travel Literature in the Edinburgh Review; M.Demata Walter Scott, Antiquarianism, and the Political Discourse of the Edinburgh Review , 1802-11; S.Manning Jeffreyism, Byron's Wordsworth, and the Nonhuman in Nature; P.H.Fry Against their Better Selves: Byron, Jeffrey and the Edinburgh; J.Stabler Rancour and Rabies: Hazlitt, Coleridge and Jeffrey in Dialogue; D.Wu Women and the Edinburgh Review ; S.Curran Index
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STUART CURRAN Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
PHILIP FLYNN Department of English, University of Delaware
PAUL H. FRY Yale University, Ezra Styles College
SUSAN MANNING Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh
JANE STABLER University of Dundee
FIONA STAFFORD Somerville College, Oxford
TIMOTHY WEBB Department of English, Bristol
Summary
The bicentenary of the foundation of the Edinburgh Review has provided the foremost scholars in the field with the opportunity to re-examine the pervasive significance of the most important literary review of the Romantic period. These essays assess the controversial role played by the Edinburgh Review in the development of Romantic literature and explore its sense of 'Scottishness' in the context of early nineteenth-century British culture.
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'...we get a set of by and large excellent individual essays, most of which investigate Jeffrey's and/or the Edinburgh's dealings with a single issue or genre: Scotland; Ireland; travel literature; antiquarianism; nature and mind; women. - William Christie, The Bibliotheck
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'...we get a set of by and large excellent individual essays, most of which investigate Jeffrey's and/or the Edinburgh's dealings with a single issue or genre: Scotland; Ireland; travel literature; antiquarianism; nature and mind; women. - William Christie, The Bibliotheck
