Before Blackwood's
Subtitle: Scottish journalism in the Age of Enlightenment
By: edited by Alex Benchimol, Rhona Brown and David Shuttleton
Series: Enlightenment world -- no. 29; Enlightenment world -- no. 29.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9781315653730
Subjects: English literature; Scottish authors; History and criticism; Journalism; History; Enlightenment; Intellectual life
Notes: Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-160) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Newspapers, the early modern public sphere and the 1704-5 Worcester Affair / Karin Bowie; title: 2. Advertising and the Edinburgh Evening Courant / Stephen W. Brown; title: 3. 'A very proper specimen of great improvement' : the Edinburgh Review and the moderate literati / Ralph McLean; title: 4. Wilkes and Scottish liberty : the reception of John Wilkes in the Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement / Rhona Brown; title: 5. The buzz about the Bee : policing the conversation of culture in the 1790s / Jon Mee; title: 6. 'The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth' : Robert Burns and the Glasgow Magazine (1795) / Nigel Leask; title: 7. Edinburgh periodical writing and James Hogg's the Spy / Gillian Hughes; title: 8. Medical discourse and ideology in the Edinburgh Review : a Chaldean exemplar / Megan Coyer; title: 9. The death of Maggie Scott : Blackwood's, the Scots Magazine and periodical eras / David Stewart.