Author: Margaret OliphantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
William Blackwood and His Sons, Their Magazine and Friends
Author: Margaret OliphantScottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834
Author: Barton SwaimPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838757161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book covers the Edinburgh Review in and as the public sphere 1802-08; Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition; Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship; and the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.
John Galt
Author: Regina HewittPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611484340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
The essays in this volume revalue the work of the Romantic-era Scottish writer John Galt, connecting his methods and goals with Scottish Enlightenment "conjectural" historiography and with later social theorizing. Emphasizing the construction, representation and use of social knowledge, the essays find new meaning in Galt's perceptions of the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds in which he traveled, his attitudes toward community building and progress, and his innovations in fiction, drama, journalism and biography.
Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine
Author: R. MorrisonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137303859
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Enlightenment, Britain and Empire (1707-1918)
Author: Ian BrownPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748630643
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Between 1707 and 1918, Scotland underwent arguably the most dramatic upheavals in its political, economic and social history. The Union with England, industrialisation and Scotland's subsequent defining contributions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the culture of Britain and Empire are reflected in the transformative energies of Scottish literature and literary institutions in the period. New genres, new concerns and whole new areas of interest opened under the creative scrutiny of sceptical minds. This second volume of the History reveals the major contribution made by Scottish writers and Scottish writing to the shape of modernity in Britain, Europe and the world.
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Networks of Improvement
Author: Jon MeePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226828395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against the stubbornly persistent image of “dark satanic mills,” in many ways so characteristic of literary Romanticism, Jon Mee provides a fresh, revisionary account of the Industrial Revolution as a story of unintended consequences. In Networks of Improvement, Mee reads a wide range of texts—economic, medical, and more conventionally “literary”—with a focus on their circulation through networks and institutions. Mee shows how a project of enlightened liberal reform articulated in Britain’s emerging manufacturing towns led to unexpectedly coercive forms of machine productivity, a pattern that might be seen repeating in the digital technologies of our own time. Instead of treating the Industrial Revolution as Romanticism’s “other,” Mee shows how writing, practices, and institutions emanating from these industrial towns developed a new kind of knowledge economy, one where local literary and philosophical societies served as important transmission hubs for the circulation of knowledge.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25
Author: Nicholas MasonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040156177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2205
Book Description
Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and entertaining texts which appeared in the "Blackwood's Magazine" between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of "Blackwood's Magazine".
Buffalo Public Library
Author: Buffalo Public Library (Buffalo, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description