The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain: Mammoth and Megalonyx (The Enlightenment World)

From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey's "Edinburgh Review" established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the "Edinburgh Review" for over fifty years. It contextualizes the periodical within the culture wars of the Romantic era. Prologue: recent Whig interpretations of romantic literary history 'Strange vigour': a review of reviews 'The modern Athenians': the Edinburgh enterprise 'The self-indulgence and self-administration of genius': Jeffrey, Wordsworth and the common apprehension 'That superior tribunal': Jeffrey and Wordsworth on the people and the public "A mortal antipathy to Scotchmen': The Biographia and the Edinburgh review 'Running with the English hares and hunting with the Scotch bloodhounds': Jeffrey and Byron 'Wars of the tongue': Blackwood's against the Edinburgh review in post-war Edinburgh 'Beware, O Teufelsdrockh, of spiritual pride!': Jeffrey and Carlyle's Sartor resartus.