Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century
Eleven Case Studies from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Tom Mole editor Nicholas Mason editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:15th Sep '20
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
Bringing together a distinguished gathering of scholars and drawing upon newly available digital archives, this collection of essays argues for the centrality of periodicals to romanticism by focusing on a flamboyant exemplar – Blackwood’s. Book history, aesthetics, politics, gender and empire – all play a role in this compelling call to reorient romantic studies. * Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado Boulder *
The range and excellence of the case studies in this book demonstrate what the Introduction asserts: that Blackwood's may be a "laboratory for exploring the range of uses twenty-first-century scholars might make of Romantic-era periodicals" (6). -- David Latané * Review 19 *
The range and excellence of the case studies in this book demonstrate what the Introduction asserts: that Blackwood's may be a "laboratory for exploring the range of uses twenty-first-century scholars might make of Romantic-era periodicals" (6). -- David Latané * Review 19 *
Mason and Mole's edited volume does not just serve as a waymarker, highlighting new trends and directions in twenty-first-century Romantic periodical research; more fundamentally, it is a wake-up call. -- Daniel Norman, Durham University * The BARS Review *
Mason and Mole's edited volume does not just serve as a waymarker, highlighting new trends and directions in twenty-first-century Romantic periodical research; more fundamentally, it is a wake-up call. -- Daniel Norman, Durham University * The BARS Review *
These essays provide useful inquiries into the intersecting, often complex, relationships between writers, editors, readers and critics as we understand them today. -- Sarah-Jean Zubair * Times Literary Supplement *
Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century is engaging as a whole and methodologically diverse. [...] in focusing on this specific run of Blackwood’s, the collection supports Mason and Mole’s call for the development of a distinctive Romantic-era periodical studies and indicates why such a field would be of critical import. -- Lindsy Lawrence, University of Arkansas–Fort Smith * Victorian Periodicals Review *
ISBN: 9781474448123
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 572g
288 pages