Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- A Chronology of the 1820s
- Introduction
- 1 Truth, Fiction and Breaking News: Theodore Hook and the Poyais Speculation
- 2 The Surfaces of History: Scott’s Turn, 1820
- Keyword: Power
- Keyword: Diffusion
- 3 Feeding the 1820s: Bread, Beer and Anxiety
- 4 Light and Darkness: The Magic Lantern at the Dawn of Media
- Keyword: Performance
- Keyword: Surveillance
- 5 Paul Pry and Elizabeth Fry: Inspection and Spectatorship in the Social Theatre of the 1820s
- 6 Regional News in ‘Peacetime’: The Dumfries and Galloway Courier in the 1820s
- Keyword: Liberal
- Keyword: Emigration
- 7 (Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics of Emigration in the 1820s Southern Settler Colonies
- 8 ‘Innovation and Irregularity’: Religion, Poetry and Song in the 1820s
- Keyword: March of Intellect
- Keyword: Doubt
- 9 The Decade of the Dialogue
- 10 Butterfly Books and Gilded Flies: Poetry and the Annual
- 11 ‘Still but an Essayist’: Carlyle’s Early Essays and Late-Romantic Periodical Culture
- Index
Notes on Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2025
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- A Chronology of the 1820s
- Introduction
- 1 Truth, Fiction and Breaking News: Theodore Hook and the Poyais Speculation
- 2 The Surfaces of History: Scott’s Turn, 1820
- Keyword: Power
- Keyword: Diffusion
- 3 Feeding the 1820s: Bread, Beer and Anxiety
- 4 Light and Darkness: The Magic Lantern at the Dawn of Media
- Keyword: Performance
- Keyword: Surveillance
- 5 Paul Pry and Elizabeth Fry: Inspection and Spectatorship in the Social Theatre of the 1820s
- 6 Regional News in ‘Peacetime’: The Dumfries and Galloway Courier in the 1820s
- Keyword: Liberal
- Keyword: Emigration
- 7 (Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics of Emigration in the 1820s Southern Settler Colonies
- 8 ‘Innovation and Irregularity’: Religion, Poetry and Song in the 1820s
- Keyword: March of Intellect
- Keyword: Doubt
- 9 The Decade of the Dialogue
- 10 Butterfly Books and Gilded Flies: Poetry and the Annual
- 11 ‘Still but an Essayist’: Carlyle’s Early Essays and Late-Romantic Periodical Culture
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Remediating the 1820s , pp. xi - xvPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022