1st Edition
The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain Mammoth and Megalonyx
By William Christie
Copyright 2009
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey's "Edinburgh Review" established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the "Edinburgh Review" for over fifty years. It contextualizes the periodical within the culture wars of the Romantic era.
Prologue: Recent Whig Interpretations of Romantic Literary History; Chapter 1 ‘Strange Vigour’: A Review of Reviews; Chapter 2 ‘The Modern Athenians’: The Edinburgh Enterprise; Chapter 3 ‘The Self-Indulgence and Self-Admiration of Genius’: Jeffrey, Wordsworth and the Common Apprehension; Chapter 4 ‘That Superior Tribunal’: Jeffrey and Wordsworth on the People and the Public; Chapter 5 ‘A Mortal Antipathy to Scotchmen’: The Biographia and the Edinburgh Review; Chapter 6 ‘Running with the English Hares and Hunting with the Scotch Bloodhounds’: Jeffrey and Byron; Chapter 7 ‘Wars of the Tongue’: Blackwood’s against the Edinburgh Review in Post-War Edinburgh; Chapter 8 ‘Beware, O Teufelsdröckh, of Spiritual Pride!’: Jeffrey and Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus;
Biography
William Christie
