‘A sideways ending to it all’: G.W. Steevens, Blackwood, and the Daily Mail

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. Scottish Beginnings
7. William Blackwood and the Dynamics of Success 21
8. ‘The mapp’d out skulls of Scotia’: Blackwood’s and the Scottish Phrenological Controversy 49
9. Blackwood’s and Romantic Nationalism 70
10. Blackwood’s Subversive Scottishness 90
11. Consolidating Reputations
12. ‘On behalf of the Right’: Archibald Alison, Political Journalism, and Blackwood’s Conservative Response to Reform, 1830–1870 119
13. Editing Blackwood’s; or, What Do Editors Do? 146
14. Maga, the Shilling Monthlies, and the New Journalism 184
15. Preserving Status
16. At the Court of Blackwood’s: In the Kampong of Hugh Clifford 215
17. ‘A sideways ending to it all’: G.W. Steevens, Blackwood, and the Daily Mail 236
18. The Muse of Blackwood’s: Charles Whibley and Literary Criticism in the World 259
19. Appendix 287
20. Bibliography 291
21. Contributors 309
22. Index 313
23. Backmatter 339