Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25, Volume 2

Selections from Maga's Infancy

Nicholas Mason, John Strachan, Anthony Jarrells, Tom Mole, Mark Parker

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000888225
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• James Hogg, ‘Tales and Anecdotes of the Pastoral Life’ (I, April 1817; May 1817; June 1817)
• James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart and John Wilson, ‘Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript’ (II, October 1817)
• Walter Scott, ‘Narrative of a Fatal Event’ (XII, March 1818)
• John Gibson Lockhart, ‘Christian Wolf, A True Story. – From the German’ (III, September 1818)
• Daniel Keyte Sandford, ‘A Night in the Catacombs’ (IV, October 1818)
• James Hogg, ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar’ (V, April 1819; May 1819)
• J. H. Merivale, ‘Tales from the Cloister’ (VII, May 1820)
• John Galt, ‘The Ayrshire Legatees; or, The Correspondence of the Pringle Family. No. VI’ (VIII, December 1820)
• John Galt, ‘The Steam-Boat; No. VI. Or, The Voyages and Travels of Thomas Duffle, Cloth-merchant in the Saltmarket of Glasgow’ (X, August 1821)
• Thomas Doubleday, ‘Shufflebotham’s Dream’ (VIII, October 1820)
• John Howison, ‘The Florida Pirate’ (IX, August 1821)
• James Hogg, ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar. Class Second.’ (XIII, June 1823)
• Henry Thomson, ‘The Confessions of a Footman’ (XIV, November 1823)
• Caroline Bowles, ‘On Churchyards’ (XV, April 1824)
• William Maginn, ‘The Suicide’ (XVI, August 1824)
• Caroline Bowles, ‘Chapters on Churchyards, Chapter IV’ (XVI, September 1824)
• David Macbeth Moir, ‘Wonderful Passage in the Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor’, ‘Still Farther Portions of the Autobiography of Mansie Wauch, Tailor’ (XVI, October 1824; XVIII, October 1825)
• Editorial Notes
• Glossary