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- Title
'The Only Irish Magazine': Early Blackwood's and the Production of Irish 'National Character'.
- Authors
Roberts, Daniel S.
- Abstract
On the 'Irish Question' of the 1820s and 30s, Blackwood's Magazine developed a fearsome reputation for intransigence. Yet its early engagements with Ireland were far from unsympathetic, viewing its peasantry, in particular, as warm-hearted and likeable, though also overly passionate and prone to disorderly behaviour. Arguing for John Wilson's theorisation of 'national character' as a crucial determinant of Blackwood's representative position, this article analyses the manner in which Maga responded to Irish literature and society in a transperipheral manner, seeking to integrate Ireland more fully into the Union, and to accept its destiny as a partner in Britain's imperial enterprise. Ireland's failure, through its poets (such as Thomas Moore) and its people, to conform to this ideal, and its headstrong movement towards Catholic Emancipation under the leadership of Daniel O'Connell, would generate the choleric position that came to characterize the magazine.
- Subjects
IRISH literature; PERIODICAL publishing; BLACKWOOD'S Edinburgh Magazine (Periodical); NATIONAL character; UNIONISM (Irish politics); BRITISH periodicals; HISTORY of periodicals; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Romanticism, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 3, p262
- ISSN
1354-991X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/rom.2017.0341