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Charts a coherent sub-field of Romantic periodical studies
This book pioneers a branch of periodical studies that is distinctive to the concerns, contexts and media of Britain's Romantic age. Eleven chapters by leading scholars showcase the range of methodological, conceptual and literary-historical insights to be drawn from just one of the era's landmark literary periodicals, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Drawing in particular on the trove of newly digitised content, these chapters model how careful analyses of the incisive and often inflammatory commentary, criticism and original literature from Blackwood's first two decades (1817-37) might inform and expand many of the most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism.
Nicholas Mason is Professor of English at Brigham Young University.
Tom Mole is Professor of English Literature and Book History, and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction,
Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole
I. Book History, Bibliography and Archival Method
1. Rethinking the Periodical Medium in the Digital Archive
, Jon Klancher 2. Reading Medicine in
Blackwood's, Megan Coyer
II. Aesthetics, Innovation and Taste
3. 'A Separate and Distinct Tribunal': Libel Law and Reviewing in Early Issues of
Blackwood's,
Tom Mole
4. Performing Personae in
Blackwood's and Romantic Periodicals,
Christine Woody
III. Reviewing Politics and the Politics of Reviewing
5. Maga as Medium: Cockneys in Context,
Mark Parker
6. 'Some Grand Secreter': Secrecy and Exposure in
Blackwood's,
Mark Schoenfield
7.
Blackwood's Pastoralism and the Highland Clearances,
Alexander Dick
IV. Gender, Race and Romantic Periodicals
8. Crashing the
Blackwood's Boys' Club: Caroline Bowles and Women's Place in Romantic-era Periodicals,
Nicholas Mason
9. Mary Prince 'At Home' in
Blackwood's: Maga's Origins and the End of Slavery,
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
V. Blackwoodian Genealogies
10. The Politics and Aesthetics of Extraction: Cultural Interventions in
Blackwood's and the
Imperial,
Kristin Flieger Samuelian
11. The Challenge of Longevity:
Blackwood's as a Post-Romantic Periodical,
Joanne Shattock
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Brigham Young UniversityNicholas Mason is Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He served as the general editor and a volume editor for Blackwood's Magazine 1817-25: Selections from Maga's Infancy (2006). His research on Blackwood's and other Romantic-era periodicals has appeared in several articles and his book Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism (2013).Tom Mole is Professor of English Literature and Book History, and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. He edited one volume of Blackwood's Magazine 1817-25: Selections from Maga's Infancy (2006). His book What the Victorians Made of Romanticism (2017) won the Saltire Society Research Book of 2018 and the Dorothy Lee Prize, and was commended for the DeLong Prize.
Summary
This book pioneers a subfield of Romantic periodical studies, distinct from its neighbours in adjacent historical periods.
