Edinburgh Review
The Edinburgh Review ( or The Critical Journal ) was a Scottish literary and political newspaper. It existed from 1802 to 1929 and appeared quarterly.
There were two short-lived predecessors of the same name in Edinburgh, 1755/56 and 1773 to 1776. The actual Edinburgh Review was published in 1802 by Francis Jeffrey (1773–1850), who was also the first editor (except for the first editions that Sydney Smith published) , Sydney Smith (1771–1845), Henry Brougham and Francis Horner (1778–1817). They were close to the Whigs and promoted their reform goals in their magazine. As such, it competed with the Tories ' Quarterly Review, founded in 1809 and printed by John Murray in London (it existed until 1967). The magazine was also known for its literary criticism and was critical of the Lake Poets , particularly William Wordsworth . As early as 1818 it had a circulation of 13,500.
Publisher was Archibald Constable (1774–1827) and later Longman (who previously represented the magazine in London). Walter Scott , William Hazlitt , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Thomas Arnold , Herbert Spencer , John Stuart Mill , Bertrand Russell , Thomas Carlyle and Leigh Hunt wrote in the magazine .
The Edinburgh Review was one of the leading magazines in 19th century England and set the standard for political magazines with literary criticism. The Latin motto was judex damnatur cum nocens graditur (The judge who lets the guilty go shall be damned) by Publilius Syrus .
There was a successor to The New Edinburgh Review in 1969 , which was called the Edinburgh Review again in 1984.
literature
- John Clive: Scotch Reviewers: The Edinburgh Review, 1802-1815, Harvard University Press, 1957
- Joanne Shattock: Politics and Reviewers: the Edinburgh and the Quarterly in the Early Victorian Age, Leicester University Press, 1989.
- William Christie: The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain. London, Pickering & Chatto, 2009.