Massimiliano Demata is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bari, Italy. He has published articles on Byron, the Gothic Novel, Orientalism and Scottish literature. Duncan Wu is University Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. He is the editor of Romanticism: An Anthology, Selected Writings of William Hazlett and the author of Wordsworth: An Inner Life.

'...we get a set of by and large excellent individual essays, most of which investigate Jeffrey's and/or the Edinburgh's dealings with a single issue or genre: Scotland; Ireland; travel literature; antiquarianism; nature and mind; women. - William Christie, The Bibliotheck

• Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: M.Demata & D.Wu Francis Jeffrey and the Scottish Critical Tradition; P.Flynn The Edinburgh Review and the Representation of Scotland; F.Stafford A Great Theatre of Outrage and Disorder: Figuring Ireland in the Edinburgh Review , 1802-29; T.Webb Prejudiced Knowledge: Travel Literature in the Edinburgh Review; M.Demata Walter Scott, Antiquarianism, and the Political Discourse of the Edinburgh Review , 1802-11; S.Manning Jeffreyism, Byron's Wordsworth, and the Nonhuman in Nature; P.H.Fry Against their Better Selves: Byron, Jeffrey and the Edinburgh; J.Stabler Rancour and Rabies: Hazlitt, Coleridge and Jeffrey in Dialogue; D.Wu Women and the Edinburgh Review ; S.Curran Index