Alex Benchimol - Before Blackwoods

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Alex Benchimol, Rhona Brown and David Shuttleton 2015

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Before Blackwoods: Scottish journalism in the Age of Enlightenment. (The
Enlightenment world)
1. English literature Scottish authors History and criticism. 2. Journalism
Scotland History 18th century. 3. Enlightenment Scotland. 4. Scotland
Intellectual life 18th century.
I. Series II. Benchimol, Alex, editor. III. Brown, Rhona, editor. IV. Shuttleton,
David, editor.
820.99411-dc23

ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-550-1 (hbk)

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Alex Benchimol is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period: Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), co-editor, with Willy Maley, of a collection of essays on the public sphere, Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Publics from Shakespeare to Habermas (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007), and has contributed reviews, review articles and essays to Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Textual Practice, Romantic Circles Review and the Romantic Circles Praxis Series . Recently, he contributed a chapter on Scottish periodicals and public culture for The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Romanticism edited by Murray Pittock (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), and an essay on the first decade of the Scots Magazine for Studies in Scottish Literature . He is currently working on a new monograph project, Printing Enlightenment: The National Press and Public Sphere in Scotland .

Karin Bowie is a lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow specializing in the political and cultural history of early modern Scotland. Her research investigates public political communication and protest activity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scotland, with a particular interest in the development of public opinion as a concept and political force. Her published work has considered the significance of public opinion in the making of the Union of 1707, including Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 16991707 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007). Dr Bowie completed a PhD in history (2004) and MPhil in social history (2000) at the University of Glasgow.

Rhona Brown is a lecturer in Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow, where she specializes in eighteenth-century Scottish literature, focusing particularly on the work of Allan Ramsay, James Beattie, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns and their contemporaries, as well as on eighteenth-century newspapers and literary periodicals. She is author of Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), and has recently published a study of a major, newly discovered poem by James Beattie in the Review of English Studies . Her research continues to focus on eighteenth-century Scottish authors, their relationship with the periodical press and contemporary print culture.