List of Figures Preface Jon Mee and Matthew Sangster
Notes on Contributors Introduction Jon Mee and Matthew Sangster
Chronology of the 1820s
Truth, Fiction and Breaking News: Theodore Hook and the Poyais Speculation Angela Esterhammer The Surfaces of History: Scott’s Turn, 1820 Ian Duncan Keyword: Power Jon Mee Keyword: Diffusion Matthew Sangster Feeding the 1820s: Bread, Beer and Anxiety Lindsay Middleton Light and Darkness: The Magic Lantern at the Dawn of Media Phillip Roberts Keyword: Performance Jon Mee Keyword: Surveillance Porscha Fermanis Paul Pry and Elizabeth Fry: Inspection and Spectatorship in the Social Theatre of the 1820s Sara Lodge Regional News in ‘Peacetime’: The Dumfries and Galloway Courier in the 1820s Gerard Lee McKeever Keyword: Liberal John Gardner Keyword: Emigration Porscha Fermanis (Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics of Emigration in the 1820s Southern Settler Colonies Lara Atkin ‘Innovation and Irregularity’: Religion, Poetry and Song in the 1820s James Grande Keyword: March of Intellect Matthew Sangster Keyword: Doubt David Stewart The Decade of the Dialogue Tim Fulford Butterfly Books and Gilded Flies: Poetry and the Annual Clara Dawson ‘Still but an Essayist’: Carlyle’s Early Essays and Late-Romantic Periodical Culture Tom Toremans