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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787487703321

Titolo

Print culture and the Blackwood tradition, 1805-1930 / / edited by David Finkelstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-4426-5824-X

1-4426-2747-6

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Disciplina

070.5094109041

Soggetti

Publishers and publishing - Great Britain - History

Nationalism - Scotland

History

Electronic books.

Great Britain Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SCOTTISH BEGINNINGS -- William Blackwood and the Dynamics of Success -- 'The mapp'd out skulls of Scotia': Blackwood's and the Scottish Phrenological Controversy -- Blackwood's and Romantic Nationalism -- Blackwood's Subversive Scottishness -- CONSOLIDATING REPUTATIONS -- 'On behalf of the Right': Archibald Alison, Political Journalism, and Blackwood's Conservative Response to Reform, 1830-1870 -- Editing Blackwood's -- or, What Do Editors Do? -- Maga, the Shilling Monthlies, and the New Journalism -- PRESERVING STATUS -- At the Court of Blackwood's: In the Kampong of Hugh Clifford -- 'A sideways ending to it all': G.W. Steevens, Blackwood, and the Daily Mail -- The Muse of Blackwood's: Charles Whibley and Literary Criticism in the World -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

Two hundred years after the founding of this significant influence on



British literary, political, and social history, this collection of essays reappraises the place of the Blackwood firm and its magazine in literary and print culture history.