· 2021· Book chapter
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, founded in 1817, innovated literary magazine formats and employed market strategies that significantly impacted the medium, as exemplified by its October 1817 issue.
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Key points
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine significantly impacted literary magazines from its 1817 founding.
- The October 1817 issue exemplifies the magazine's innovative format and market positioning.
- The magazine's translations from Greek and Latin reveal its engagement with a 'gentlemanly translating culture' rooted in classical education.
- Understudied translations in Blackwood's scholarship highlight a broader neglect of the transnational context in British Romanticism.
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Abstract
Few British literary magazines can boast an impact on the medium as significant and substantial as the one made by Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in the years following its foundation in 1817. A closer look at the October 1817 issue aptly illustrates both the innovation of the format and the strategies Blackwood’s employed to posit itself in the market. Although Blackwood’s assumed a more moderate and less provocative tone in the years following its relaunch, it continued to explore and innovate the medium of the literary magazine. The relative neglect of translation in the study of Blackwood’s is part of a similar neglect of the broader transnational context of British Romanticism, and more particularly its interaction with other cultures and national traditions. Blackwood’s translations from Greek and Latin, for example, place the magazine in “a gentlemanly translating culture, for which the Latin classics were the essential training ground”.
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