The Edinburgh review in the literary culture of Romantic Britain
Subtitle: mammoth and megalonyx
By: by William Christie
Series: The Enlightenment world -- no. 15
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781851966226; 9781851966998
Description: 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 literary study of the 'Edinburgh Review' contextualizes the periodical within the culture wars of the Romantic era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: recent Whig interpretations of romantic literary history; title: 'Strange vigour': a review of reviews; title: 'The modern Athenians': the Edinburgh enterprise; title: 'The self-indulgence and self-administration of genius': Jeffrey, Wordsworth and the common apprehension; title: 'That superior tribunal': Jeffrey and Wordsworth on the people and the public; title: "A mortal antipathy to Scotchmen': The Biographia and the Edinburgh review; title: 'Running with the English hares and hunting with the Scotch bloodhounds': Jeffrey and Byron; title: 'Wars of the tongue': Blackwood's against the Edinburgh review in post-war Edinburgh; title: 'Beware, O Teufelsdrockh, of spiritual pride!': Jeffrey and Carlyle's Sartor resartus.