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Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print General Editors: Professor Anne K. Mellor and Professor Clifford Siskin Editorial Board: Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck & IES; John Bender, Stanford; Alan Bewell, Toronto; Peter de Bolla, Cambridge; Robert Miles, Victoria; Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton; Saree Makdisi, UCLA; Felicity Nussbaum, UCLA; Mary Poovey, NYU; Janet Todd, Cambridge Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print will feature work that does not fit comfortably within established boundaries—whether between periods or between disciplines. Uniquely, it will combine efforts to engage the power and materiality of print with explorations of gender, race, and class. By attending as well to intersections of literature with the visual arts, medicine, law, and science, the series will enable a large-scale rethinking of the origins of modernity. Titles include: Melanie Bigold WOMEN OF LETTERS, MANUSCRIPT CIRCULATION, AND PRINT AFTERLIVES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter Ildiko Csengei SYMPATHY, SENSIBILITY AND THE LITERATURE OF FEELING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Noah Comet ROMANTIC HELLENISM AND WOMEN WRITERS Alexander Dick ROMANTICISM AND THE GOLD STANDARD Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790–1830 Elizabeth Eger BLUESTOCKINGS Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism Ina Ferris and Paul Keen (editors) BOOKISH HISTORIES Books, Literature, and Commercial Modernity, 1700–1900 John Gardner POETRY AND POPULAR PROTEST Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy George C. Grinnell THE AGE OF HYPOCHONDRIA Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness Anthony S. Jarrells BRITAIN’S BLOODLESS REVOLUTIONS 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature Jacqueline M. Labbe WRITING ROMANTICISM Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784–1807 Michelle Levy FAMILY AUTHORSHIP AND ROMANTIC PRINT CULTURE April London LITERARY HISTORY WRITING, 1770–1820 Robert Miles ROMANTIC MISFITS Tom Mole BYRON’S ROMANTIC CELEBRITY Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts (editors) ROMANTICISM AND BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE ‘An Unprecedented Phenomenon’ Catherine Packham EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VITALISM Bodies, Culture, Politics Nicola Parsons READING GOSSIP IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND Jessica Richard THE ROMANCE OF GAMBLING IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL Andrew Rudd SYMPATHY AND INDIA IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1770–1830 Erik Simpson LITERARY MINSTRELSY, 1770–1830 Minstrels and Improvisers in British, Irish and American Literature Anne H. Stevens BRITISH HISTORICAL FICTION BEFORE SCOTT David Stewart ROMANTIC MAGAZINES AND METROPOLITAN LITERARY CULTURE Rebecca Tierney-Hynes NOVEL MINDS Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680–1740 P. Westover NECROMANTICISM Travelling to Meet the Dead, 1750–1860 Esther Wohlgemut ROMANTIC COSMOPOLITANISM David Worrall THE POLITICS OF ROMANTIC THEATRICALITY, 1787–1832 The Road to the Stage Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–4039–3408–6 hardback 978–1–4039–3409–3 paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of diffi culty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine ‘An Unprecedented Phenomenon’ Edited by Robert Morrison and Daniel S. Roberts Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Robert Morrison and Daniel S. Roberts 2013 Individual chapters © contributors 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-0-230-30441-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. 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A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, editor, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817–1834 This page intentionally left blank 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 vii viii Contents 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 ix
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