2021/12/16 by Tom Toremans, Ernest De Clerck · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Historical Art and Culture Studies #Scottish History and National Identity
paper · doi:10.4324/9780429274244-28
openalex publication_date 2021/12/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
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”.