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- Title
BLACK BOOKS: SEDITION, CIRCULATION, AND THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL.
- Authors
FIELDING, PENNY
- Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" by Walter Scott. Topics include the role of a Black Book in the poem in relation to political events in the 1790s, the history of the literary journal "Edinburgh Review" in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the August 1793 trial of lawyer Thomas Muir in relation to radicalism and sedition.
- Subjects
LAY of the Last Minstrel, The (Poem : Scott); SCOTT, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832; BOOKS in literature; SCOTTISH politics &; government; POLITICS &; literature; MUIR, Thomas; LITERARY magazines; SEDITION; HISTORY; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
ELH, 2014, Vol 81, Issue 1, p197
- ISSN
0013-8304
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/elh.2014.0007