TY - JOUR
AU - Ledbetter, Kathryn
AB - reviews 585 Pp. ixþ330. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Cloth, $65/»42. In this collection David Finkelstein gathers essays from the ¢nest scholars of media history and Scottish literary and publishing history to re-evaluate the in£uence and importance of Edinburgh’s Blackwood family of publishers and their famous nineteenth-century intellectual monthly periodical, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. Joining the ‘renaissance of work over the past ¢fty years dedicated to the history and place of the Blackwood ¢rm in Romantic,Victorian, and Edwardian literary culture’ (p. 4), Finkelstein’s volume enlightens our understanding of the vital role played by the Blackwood ¢rm in setting the model for an aggressive commercial publishing house and in creating Blackwood’s, ‘the most famous monthly publication of the day’ that served as a ‘valuable textual commodity for ensuring maximum publicity and exposure for its authors’ (p. 9). Finkelstein’s volume engages in discussions now current in book history scholarship about publishing practices, readership, commodi¢cation of the material product, the role of authors and editors, the e¡ects produced by periodical publication and market politics. William Blackwood I initiated a tradition of ‘hard-nosed commercial instincts, a keen sense of opportunity, and a remarkable ability to determine who and what would please the market’, 
TI - david finkelstein (ed.). Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition 1805–1930.
JO - The Review of English Studies
DO - 10.1093/res/hgm065
DA - 2007-09-30
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/david-finkelstein-ed-print-culture-and-the-blackwood-tradition-1805-DeWXWW80Ga
SP - 585
EP - 586
VL - 58
IS - 236
DP - DeepDyve
ER -