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- Title
Reviewing America: Francis Jeffrey, The Edinburgh Review and the United States.
- Authors
Perkins, Pam
- Abstract
In the early nineteenth century, The Edinburgh Review evinced political sympathy for the American republic, though sometimes hostility towards American language and literature. A complicated exchange about American culture with the Review's rival Blackwood's Magazine ensued through which competing British political ideologies were engaged. Eventually visiting America, the editor of the Edinburgh Review, Francis Jeffrey had a very strong sense of being an alien, feelings which Jeffrey records in his American journal. These experiences counterpoint sympathetic writing about America in the Review which is revealed, then, to be much more a lens through which the policies of the British Tory administration are criticised, rather than fullblown engagement with American culture.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDINBURGH (Scotland); SCOTLAND; UNITED Kingdom; 19TH century American literature; 19TH century Scottish literature; JEFFREY, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850; TORY Party (Great Britain)
- Publication
SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language & Literature, 2011, Vol 18, p53
- ISSN
1571-0734
- Publication type
Article