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.
Author Biography:
JASON CAMLOT Associate Professor and Chair of English, Concordia University in Montréal, Canada WILLIAM CHRISTIE Chair in English Literature, University of Sydney, Australia RICHARD CRONIN Professor of Romantic and Victorian Poetry, University of Glasgow, UK DAVID FINKELSTEINM Dean of the School of Humanities, University of Dundee, UK PHILIP FLYNN Professor of English, University of Delaware, USA DAVID HIGGINS Lecturer in English Literature, University of Leeds, UK GILLIAN HUGHES University of Stirling, UK ANTHONY JARRELLS University of South Carolina, USA DUNCAN KELLY University Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Cambridge, UK TIM KILLICK Cardiff University, UK DAVID LATANE Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA NICHOLAS MASON Associate Professor of English, Brigham Young University, USA TOM MOLE Associate Professor of English, McGill University in Montreal, Canada THOMAS C. RICHARDSON Professor of English, Mississippi University for Women, USA MARK SCHOENFELD Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA DAVID STEWART Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Northumbria University, UK JOHN STRACHAN Professor of English Literature, Northumbria University, UK NANORA SWEET University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA