Description

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Maps a coherent subfield of Romantic periodical studies through studying the trailblazing Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
An introduction by two established scholars that articulates a case for the more sustained, systematic study of Romantic periodicals and justifies the volume's focus by retracing Blackwood's emergence as the era's most innovative, influential and controversial literary magazine.Features eleven essays modelling how the wide-ranging commentary, reviews and original fiction and verse published in Blackwood's during its first two decades (1817-37) might meaningfully inform many of the most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism. Contributes to field-wide bicentenary celebrations and reappraisals both of Blackwood's and the authors and works - including Shelley's Frankenstein, Byron's Don Juan and Keats's Poems - whose reputations the magazine helped shape.
This book pioneers a subfield of Romantic periodical studies, distinct from its neighbours in adjacent historical periods. Eleven chapters by leading scholars in the field model the range of methodological, conceptual and literary-historical insights to be drawn from careful engagements with one of the age's landmark literary periodicals, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Engaging with the research potential unlocked by new digital resources for studying Romantic periodicals, they argue that the wide-ranging commentary, reviews and original fiction and verse published in Blackwood's during its first two decades (1817-37) should inform many of the most vibrant contemporary discussions surrounding British Romanticism.

About the Author

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Brigham Young University Nicholas 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.