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"Nearest Approach to Fairyland": Mythologising Scotland in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh Periodical Travel-Writing and Tourism Advertisements

Abstract:This article investigates descriptions of the Scottish landscape in travel writing and tourism advertisements published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from…

The unusual printing and publishing arrangements of Hugh Miller (1802–1856)

John Johnstone was an Edinburgh printer and publisher, from 1849 in partnership with Robert Hunter. In 1839, Johnstone and the printer Robert Fairly established a separate firm, Johnstone & Fairly,…

Friend or foe? British receptions of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 1835–1885

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835, 1840) strongly influenced Western understandings of democracy. The dissemination and reception of Tocqueville’s ideas had been studied in various…

Queen Victoria and the “Bloody Mary of Madagascar”

This article demonstrates how a broad cross-section of Britons—including government officials, missionaries, journalists, novelists, and travelers—used the controversial Queen Ranavalona of…

Networking Feminist Literary History: Recovering Eliza Meteyard’s Web

This essay addresses how the Internet works for scholars of Victorian literature and literary history, how we work on the Net, how the concept of networks is affecting our engagements with literary…

The transmission and reception of P. B. Shelley in owenite and chartist newspapers and periodicals

This thesis examines the nature of the relationship between Shelley and the thought, politics, and discursive practices of Owenism and Chartism. Its objects of analysis are Owenite periodicals and…

Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60

Itinerant lecturers declaiming upon free trade, Chartism, temperance, or anti-slavery could be heard in market places and halls across the country during the years 1837-60. The power of the spoken…