This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction.

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

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