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Title Before Blackwood's : Scottish journalism in the Age of Enlightenment / edited by Alex Benchimol, Rhona Brown and David Shuttleton
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 163 pages)
Series Enlightenment world ; no. 29
Enlightenment world ; no. 29.
Contents 1. Newspapers, the early modern public sphere and the 1704-5 Worcester Affair / Karin Bowie -- 2. Advertising and the Edinburgh Evening Courant / Stephen W. Brown -- 3. 'A very proper specimen of great improvement' : the Edinburgh Review and the moderate literati / Ralph McLean -- 4. Wilkes and Scottish liberty : the reception of John Wilkes in the Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement / Rhona Brown -- 5. The buzz about the Bee : policing the conversation of culture in the 1790s / Jon Mee -- 6. 'The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth' : Robert Burns and the Glasgow Magazine (1795) / Nigel Leask -- 7. Edinburgh periodical writing and James Hogg's the Spy / Gillian Hughes -- 8. Medical discourse and ideology in the Edinburgh Review : a Chaldean exemplar / Megan Coyer -- 9. The death of Maggie Scott : Blackwood's, the Scots Magazine and periodical eras / David Stewart
Notes Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-160) and index
Subject English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism
Journalism -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
Enlightenment -- Scotland
English literature -- Scottish authors
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Journalism
SUBJECT Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Subject Scotland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Benchimol, Alex
Brown, Rhona
Shuttleton, David
ISBN 9781315653730
1315653737