Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century

Brigham Young University 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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction, Nicholas Mason and Tom MoleI. Book History, Bibliography and Archival Method1. Rethinking the Periodical Medium in the Digital Archive, Jon Klancher 2. Reading Medicine in Blackwood’s, Megan CoyerII. Aesthetics, Innovation and Taste3. ‘A Separate and Distinct Tribunal’: Libel Law and Reviewing in Early Issues of Blackwood’s, Tom Mole4. Performing Personae in Blackwood’s and Romantic Periodicals, Christine WoodyIII. Reviewing Politics and the Politics of Reviewing5. Maga as Medium: Cockneys in Context, Mark Parker6. ‘Some Grand Secreter’: Secrecy and Exposure in Blackwood’s, Mark Schoenfield7. Blackwood’s Pastoralism and the Highland Clearances, Alexander DickIV. Gender, Race and Romantic Periodicals8. Crashing the Blackwood’s Boys’ Club: Caroline Bowles and Women’s Place in Romantic-era Periodicals, Nicholas Mason9. Mary Prince ‘At Home’ in Blackwood’s: Maga’s Origins and the End of Slavery, Caroline McCracken-FlesherV. Blackwoodian Genealogies10. The Politics and Aesthetics of Extraction: Cultural Interventions in Blackwood’s and the Imperial, Kristin Flieger Samuelian11. The Challenge of Longevity: Blackwood’s as a Post-Romantic Periodical, Joanne ShattockBibliographyIndex

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.