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"Mason and Mole's edited volume does not just serve as a waymarker, highlighting new trends and directions in twenty-first-century Romantic periodical research; more fundamentally, it is a wake-up call.--Daniel Norman, Durham University ""The BARS Review"" These essays provide useful inquiries into the intersecting, often complex, relationships between writers, editors, readers and critics as we understand them today.--Sarah-Jean Zubair ""Times Literary Supplement"" Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century is engaging as a whole and methodologically diverse. [...] in focusing on this specific run of Blackwood's, the collection supports Mason and Mole's call for the development of a distinctive Romantic-era periodical studies and indicates why such a field would be of critical import.--Lindsy Lawrence, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith ""Victorian Periodicals Review"" Bringing together a distinguished gathering of scholars and drawing upon newly available digital archives, this collection of essays argues for the centrality of periodicals to romanticism by focusing on a flamboyant exemplar - Blackwood's. Book history, aesthetics, politics, gender and empire - all play a role in this compelling call to reorient romantic studies.-- ""Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado Boulder"" The range and excellence of the case studies in this book demonstrate what the Introduction asserts: that Blackwood's may be a ""laboratory for exploring the range of uses twenty-first-century scholars might make of Romantic-era periodicals"" (6).--David Latan� ""Review 19"""

Mason and Mole's edited volume does not just serve as a waymarker, highlighting new trends and directions in twenty-first-century Romantic periodical research; more fundamentally, it is a wake-up call.--Daniel Norman, Durham University ""The BARS Review"" These essays provide useful inquiries into the intersecting, often complex, relationships between writers, editors, readers and critics as we understand them today.--Sarah-Jean Zubair ""Times Literary Supplement"" The range and excellence of the case studies in this book demonstrate what the Introduction asserts: that Blackwood's may be a ""laboratory for exploring the range of uses twenty-first-century scholars might make of Romantic-era periodicals"" (6).--David Latané ""Review 19"" Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century is engaging as a whole and methodologically diverse. [...] in focusing on this specific run of Blackwood's, the collection supports Mason and Mole's call for the development of a distinctive Romantic-era periodical studies and indicates why such a field would be of critical import.--Lindsy Lawrence, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith ""Victorian Periodicals Review"" Bringing together a distinguished gathering of scholars and drawing upon newly available digital archives, this collection of essays argues for the centrality of periodicals to romanticism by focusing on a flamboyant exemplar - Blackwood's. Book history, aesthetics, politics, gender and empire - all play a role in this compelling call to reorient romantic studies.-- ""Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado Boulder""

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Nicholas Mason, Professor of English Tom Mole, Professor of English Literature and Book History, and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh.

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