Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Macrone
Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Macrone

Author: Daniel Grader

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0748679901

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A well-written and carefully-researched narrative, it increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, as well as enabling us to read Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context.

Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25
Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25

Author: Nicholas Mason

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 2205

ISBN-13: 1040156177

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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".

The Collected Works of James Hogg: The collected letters of James Hogg: volume 1, 1800-1819
The Collected Works of James Hogg: The collected letters of James Hogg: volume 1, 1800-1819

Author: James Hogg

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13:

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"Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description.

Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth-Century England
Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth-Century England

Author: Robert D. Storch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-17

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1317215222

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First published in 1982, this book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in customs, rituals, beliefs of artisans, factory workers and sections of the lower middle classes in the nineteenth century. It explores a range of factors which contributed to changes in custom, including the effects of urbanisation, conflict over the use of public land, new conceptions of public order, the decline of the oral tradition and the growth of a new recreational nexus in the larger cities. Drawing on material from all parts of the British Isles, the book demonstrates the enormous variety and diversity of popular tradition. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history.

Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834
Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834

Author: Barton Swaim

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780838757161

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Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book covers the Edinburgh Review in and as the public sphere 1802-08; Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition; Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship; and the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.

Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine
Romanticism and Blackwood's Magazine

Author: R. Morrison

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1137303859

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This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction.