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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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Brigham Young University Nicholas Mason is Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He served as the general editor and a volume editor for Blackwood's Magazine 1817-25: Selections from Maga's Infancy (2006). His research on Blackwood's and other Romantic-era periodicals has appeared in several articles and his book Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism (2013). Tom Mole is Professor of English Literature and Book History, and Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. He edited one volume of Blackwood's Magazine 1817-25: Selections from Maga's Infancy (2006). His book What the Victorians Made of Romanticism (2017) won the Saltire Society Research Book of 2018 and the Dorothy Lee Prize, and was commended for the DeLong Prize.

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