Alex Benchimol, Rhona Brown, David Shuttleton

"...an illuminating, provocative, integral part of any Scottish literature or history course based on the Enlightenment and Romantic periods."Andrew Noble, Scottish Literary Review

• Introduction, Alex Benchimol, Rhona Brown, David Shuttleton; Chapter 1 Newspapers, the Early Modern Public Sphere and the 1704–5 Worcester Affair, Karin Bowie; Chapter 2 Advertising and the Edinburgh Evening Courant, Stephen W. Brown; Chapter 3 ‘A Very Proper Specimen of Great Improvement’: The Edinburgh Review and the Moderate Literati, Ralph McLean; Chapter 4 Wilkes and Scottish Liberty: The Reception of John Wilkes in the Weekly Magazine, or Edinburgh Amusement, Rhona Brown; Chapter 5 The Buzz about the Bee : Policing the Conversation of Culture in the 1790s, Jon Mee; Chapter 6 ‘The Pith o’ Sense, and Pride o’ Worth’: Robert Burns and the Glasgow Magazine (1795), Nigel Leask; Chapter 7 Edinburgh Periodical Writing and James Hogg’s the Spy, Gillian Hughes; Chapter 8 Medical Discourse and Ideology in the Edinburgh Review : A Chaldean Exemplar, Megan Coyer; Chapter 9 The Death of Maggie Scott: Blackwood’s, the Scots Magazine and Periodical Eras, David Stewart; afterword Afterword, Murray Pittock;