The Edinburgh Periodical Press

Step back in time and explore the rich history of Scotland's capital city with The Edinburgh Periodical Press by W.J. Couper. This fascinating book provides a detailed account of the newspapers, journals, and magazines that were published in Edinburgh from the earliest times up to 1800. With in-depth analysis and insightful commentary, this book is the definitive guide to Edinburgh's rich publishing history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This comprehensive guide to the Edinburgh periodical press is an essential resource for anyone studying Scottish history or the history of journalism. William James Couper has compiled a detailed bibliography of all the newspapers, journals, and magazines published in Edinburgh from the earliest times up to the year 1800, providing information on their editors, contributors, printing history, and more. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood?s Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.

Though Robert Fergusson published only one collection of poems during his lifetime, he was a fixture in the Scottish periodical press. Rhona Brown explores Fergusson's poetic output in its immediate periodical context, enabling a new understanding of Fergusson's contribution to poetry that also enlarges on our understanding of the Scottish periodical press. Focusing on the development of his career in Walter Ruddiman's Weekly Magazine, Brown situates Fergusson's poetry alongside contemporary events that expose Fergusson's preoccupations with the frivolities of fashion, theatrical culture, the economic status of Scottish manufacture, and politics. At the same time, Brown offers fascinating insights into the political climate of Enlightenment Scotland and shows the Weekly Magazine in relationship to the larger Scottish and British periodical milieus. She concludes by exploring reactions to Fergusson's death in the British periodical presses, arguing that contrary to critical consensus, the poet's death was ignored neither by his own country nor by the larger literary community.

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.

Excerpt from The Edinburgh Periodical Press, Vol. 1: Being a Bibliographical Account of the Newspapers, Journals, and Magazines Issued in Edinburgh From the Earliest Times to 1800 Part of what these volumes contain has already appeared in Scottish Notes and Queries, and I desire to express my gratitude to the Editor, Mr. John Bulloch, for his ready permission to make what further use I liked of the material. I can hardly expect that this - the first attempt to give a detailed account of the early Edinburgh newspaper press, indeed, the early newspaper press of Scotland - can be free from the errors, deficiencies, and omissions of pioneer work. It would be strange if many mistakes had not crept into the mass of facts that has been collected, and it would be equally strange if important sources of information had not been overlooked. I am also fully aware of the inadequacy of the introductory sections; but they are offered as a contribution to the elucidation of a subject which one day should have its history fully written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.