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General
Excerpts from Individual articles on Literature
- The Lack of Historical Accuracy in the Historical Novels of Harrison Ainsworth
- Bulwer-Lytton’s Historical Fiction
- “Badly Assimilated Memoirs of the Period, Unnecessary Dialogue, & Moral Reflections Masquerading as a Novel” — The Historical Fiction of G.P.R. James
- Byron, Sentimentality, and the Early Victorian Adventure Novel
- The Unforgettable Characters of Dickens
- A Contemporary Review of Aurora Leigh
- Dickens and Social Class
- Victorian Working Women
- The Initial Publication Context of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Individual articles on Visual Arts
Individual articles on Politics
- “Fanaticism in the Soudan” (complete text, 1884)
- “The Policy of England in Egypt Has Been a Gigantic and Fatal Error from Beginning to End” (excerpt from an article)
- “The Tsar and the Jews” [excerpts]
- The Causes of the So-Called Chinese Opium Wars [excerpts]
Bibliography
Cox, R. G. "The Reviews and the Magazines." The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. 6. From Dickens to Hardy. Ed. Boris Ford. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958, rpt. 1983.
Harris, Wendell V. British Short Fiction in the Nineteenth Century: A Literary and Bibliographic Guide. Detroit: Wayne State U. P., 1979.
Harvey, Paul, ed. "Blackwood's Magazine." Oxford Companion to English Literature. Fourth Edition. Oxford and New York: Clarendon and Oxford U. P., 1983.
Hidden Treasure Tales from 'Blackwood'. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, 1969.
Matheson, Ann. "Scottish Periodicals." Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research. Ed. J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel. New York: MLA, 1989. Vol. 2.
Morrison, Robert, and Chris Baldick, eds. Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine. Oxford World's Classics. New York and Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1999.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford U. P., 1989.
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