Chapter 11 ‘Still but an Essayist’: Carlyle’s Early Essays and Late-Romantic Periodical Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Preface viii
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. A Chronology of the 1820s xvi
7. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 1 Truth, Fiction and Breaking News: Theodore Hook and the Poyais Speculation 21
9. Chapter 2 The Surfaces of History: Scott’s Turn, 1820 39
10. Keyword: Power 58
11. Keyword: Diffusion 63
12. Chapter 3 Feeding the 1820s: Bread, Beer and Anxiety 68
13. Chapter 4 Light and Darkness: The Magic Lantern at the Dawn of Media 88
14. Keyword: Performance 109
15. Keyword: Surveillance 113
16. Chapter 5 Paul Pry and Elizabeth Fry: Inspection and Spectatorship in the Social Theatre of the 1820s 118
17. Chapter 6 Regional News in ‘Peacetime’: The Dumfries and Galloway Courier in the 1820s 137
18. Keyword: Liberal 156
19. Keyword: Emigration 161
20. Chapter 7 (Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics of Emigration in the 1820s Southern Settler Colonies 166
21. Chapter 8 ‘Innovation and Irregularity’: Religion, Poetry and Song in the 1820s 187
22. Keyword: March of Intellect 206
23. Keyword: Doubt 213
24. Chapter 9 The Decade of the Dialogue 218
25. Chapter 10 Butterfly Books and Gilded Flies: Poetry and the Annual 236
26. Chapter 11 ‘Still but an Essayist’: Carlyle’s Early Essays and Late-Romantic Periodical Culture 254
27. Index 273