ABSTRACT

The EDINBURGH REVIEW (1802–1929) holds a place among the reviewing periodicals of the early nineteenth century comparable to the place of Christopher Marlowe in the development of English drama. It gave shape, authority, and talent to a medium that had been struggling to be born. The brief inclusiveness of the Monthly Review and Critical Review had given way to more selective and pointed notices in new monthlies like the Analytical Review (1788-1797), the British Critic (1793-1826), and the Antijacobin Review (1798–1821). (It should be noted that the last two, both strongly Tory and high-church, were flourishing after the demise of the Analytical, a strongly liberal journal.)