Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition / / David Finkelstein.

In late 1804, William Blackwood established a small publishing and bookselling firm in Edinburgh. Over the next 175 years, William Blackwood & Sons became one of the leading publishers in Britain, enjoying both local and international success. Early on it championed the works of Scottish writers...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in Book and Print Culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Scottish Beginnings
  • William Blackwood and the Dynamics of Success / Morrison, Robert
  • 'The mapp'd out skulls of Scotia': Blackwood's and the Scottish Phrenological Controversy / Strachan, John
  • Blackwood's and Romantic Nationalism / Duncan, Ian
  • Blackwood's Subversive Scottishness / Snodgrass, Charles
  • Consolidating Reputations
  • 'On behalf of the Right': Archibald Alison, Political Journalism, and Blackwood's Conservative Response to Reform, 1830-1870 / Michie, Michael
  • Editing Blackwood's; or, What Do Editors Do? / Patten, Robert L. / Finkelstein, David
  • Maga, the Shilling Monthlies, and the New Journalism / Brake, Laurel
  • Preserving Status
  • At the Court of Blackwood's: In the Kampong of Hugh Clifford / Dryden, Linda
  • 'A sideways ending to it all': G.W. Steevens, Blackwood, and the Daily Mail / Davies, Laurence
  • The Muse of Blackwood's: Charles Whibley and Literary Criticism in the World / Donovan, Stephen
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Backmatter