ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |13 pages

John Gibson Lockhart ‘Prometheus Unbound’ 1

(VII, September 1820, pp. 679–87)

chapter |15 pages

Anon. ‘Melmoth the Wanderer, &c.’ 1

(VIII, November 1820, pp. 161–8)

chapter |8 pages

David Macbeth Moir (‘D.M.’) ‘On Critics and Criticism’ 1

(VIII, November 1820, pp. 138–40)

chapter |7 pages

Anon. ‘Kenilworth’ 1

(VIII, January 1821, pp. 435–42)

chapter |12 pages

Anon. ‘The Leg of Mutton School of Poetry. No. I’ 1

(IX, June 1821, p. 345–66)

chapter |13 pages

Anon. (‘Harry Franklin’) ‘Continuation of Don Juan’ 1

(X, August 1821, pp. 107–15)

chapter |9 pages

Anon. ‘Chaucer and Don Juan’ 1

(X, October 1821, pp. 295–8)

chapter |9 pages

John Gibson Lockhart ‘Lord Byron's Three New Tragedies’ 1

(XI, January 1822, pp. 90–3)

chapter |13 pages

Thomas Doubleday (‘T. D.’) ‘How Far is Poetry an Art?’ 1

(XI, February 1822, pp. 153–8)

chapter |8 pages

Eyre Evans Crowe ‘American Poetry’ 1

(XI, June 1822, pp. 684–8)

chapter |6 pages

Anon. ‘The Mohawks’ 1

(XI, June 1822, pp. 696–7)

chapter |5 pages

William Howison (‘Peu-de-Mots’) ‘The Fortunes of Nigel’ 1

(XI, June 1822, pp. 734–5)

chapter |14 pages

Eyre Evans Crowe ‘Hazlitt's Table-Talk’ 1

(XII, August 1822, pp. 157–66)

chapter |11 pages

John Wilson ‘Hogg's Three Perils of Woman’ 1

(XIV, October 1823, pp. 427–37)

chapter |10 pages

John Gibson Lockhart ‘Ballantyne's Novelists' Library’ 1

(XV, April 1824, pp. 406–18)

chapter |13 pages

Anon. ‘The Inheritance, A Novel, by the Author of Marriage’ 1

(XV, June 1824, pp. 659–74)

chapter |20 pages

William Harness ‘Celebrated Female Writers. No. I. Joanna Baillie’ 1

(XVI, August 1824, pp. 162–78)

chapter |8 pages

William Maginn ‘Miss Landon's Poetry’ 1

(XVI, August 1824, pp. 189–93)

chapter |13 pages

John Neal (‘X. Y. Z.’) ‘American Writers [No. I]’ 1

(XVI, September 1824, pp. 304–11)