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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finkelstein, David, 1964-

Series:

Studies in book and print culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

William Blackwood and Sons--History.

William Blackwood and Sons.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History.

Publishers and publishing.

History.

Great Britain--Intellectual life.

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

Nationalism--Scotland.

Nationalism.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

ix unnumbered pages, 326 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction / David Finkelstein 3

Scottish Beginnings

William Blackwood and the Dynamics of Success / Robert Morrison 21

'The mapp'd out skulls of Scotia': Blackwood's and the Scottish Phrenological Controversy / John Strachan 49

Blackwood's and Romantic Nationalism / Ian Duncan 70

Blackwood's Subversive Scottishness / Charles Snodgrass 90

Consolidating Reputations

'On behalf of the Right': Archibald Alison, Political Journalism, and Blackwood's Conservative Response to Reform, 1830-1870 / Michael Michie 119

Editing Blackwood's; or, What Do Editors Do? / Robert L. Patten, David Finkelstein 146

Maga, the Shilling Monthlies, and the New Journalism / Laurel Brake 184

Preserving Status

At the Court of Blackwood's: In the Kampong of Hugh Clifford / Linda Dryden 215

'A sideways ending to it all': G.W. Steevens, Blackwood, and the Daily Mail / Laurence Davies 236

The Muse of Blackwood's: Charles Whibley and Literary Criticism in the World / Stephen Donovan 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references: pages [291]-308.

ISBN:

0802087116

OCLC:

69785584