The Taste for Violence in Blackwood’s Magazine

Schoenfield, Mark

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“…The indignation he assumes marks the beginning of the more aggressive tone adopted by Blackwood's at what it denounces with increasing fury as the false representation of Irish national character. 18 Turning from literature to politics, I would argue, one sees a similar process of disillusionment, as Ireland fails to conform to Maga's romanticised view, unleashing increasing virulence towards its Catholic leadership. An early political review of significance appears is the August 1820 issue of an anonymously published tract titled Thoughts and Suggestions on the Education of the Peasantry of Ireland.…”

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‘The Only Irish Magazine’: Early Blackwood's and the Production of Irish ‘National Character’

Roberts

2017

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On the ‘Irish Question’ of the 1820s and 30s, Blackwood's Magazine developed a fearsome reputation for intransigence. Yet its early engagements with Ireland were far from unsympathetic, viewing its peasantry, in particular, as warm-hearted and likeable, though also overly passionate and prone to disorderly behaviour. Arguing for John Wilson's theorisation of ‘national character’ as a crucial determinant of Blackwood's representative position, this article analyses the manner in which Maga responded to Irish literature and society in a transperipheral manner, seeking to integrate Ireland more fully into the Union, and to accept its destiny as a partner in Britain's imperial enterprise. Ireland's failure, through its poets (such as Thomas Moore) and its people, to conform to this ideal, and its headstrong movement towards Catholic Emancipation under the leadership of Daniel O'Connell, would generate the choleric position that came to characterize the magazine.

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