Author: Hilary FraserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521830720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Table of contents
Gender and the Victorian Periodical
Author: Hilary FraserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521830720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Table of contents
Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society
Author: Jerry Don VannPublisher:
ISBN: 9780802071743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The circulation of periodicals and newspapers is thought to have been larger and more influential than that of books in Victorian society. J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel have brought together commissioned bibliographical essays on Victorian periodical literature by some of the world's greatest experts in the field, whose contributions support this view. The essayists guide the reader into avenues for exploring Victorian society and the professions (law, medicine, architecture, the military, science); the arts (music, illustration, theatre, authorship and the book trade); occupations and commerce (transport, finance, trade, advertising, agriculture); popular culture (temperance, sport, comic periodicals); and both lower- and upper-class journals (workers' and university students'). They seek to identify the ways that periodicals informed, instructed, and amused virtually all of the people in the many segments of Victorian life. The periodicals demonstrate the emergence of professionalism in the various areas of human endeavour. Professional societies were formed to regulate each discipline and each had its own journal or journals. The growth of professionalism also dictated a rapid pace of change in Victorian society, and change, in turn, demanded closer and more accurate communication of new ideas through periodical literature.
The Victorian Review
Author: Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Joanne ShattockPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110708573X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.
Victorian Periodicals Review
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford
Author: Dr Thomas RecchioPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475573
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Tracing the publishing history of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford from its initial 1851-53 serialization in Dickens's Household Words through its numerous editions and adaptations, Thomas Recchio focuses especially on how the text has been deployed to support ideas related to nation and national identity. Recchio maps Cranford's nineteenth-century reception in Britain and the United States through illustrated editions in England dating from 1864 and their subsequent re-publication in the United States, US school editions in the first two decades of the twentieth century, dramatic adaptations from 1899 to 2007, and Anglo-American literary criticism in the latter half of the twentieth century. Making extensive use of primary materials, Recchio considers Cranford within the context of the Victorian periodical press, contemporary reviews, theories of text and word relationships in illustrated books, community theater, and digital media. In addition to being a detailed publishing history that emphasizes the material forms of the book and its adaptations, Recchio's book is a narrative of Cranford's evolution from an auto-ethnography of a receding mid-Victorian English way of life to a novel that was deployed as a maternal model to define an American sensibility for early twentieth-century Mediterranean and Eastern European immigrants. While focusing on one novel, Recchio offers a convincing micro-history of the way English literature was positioned in England and the United States to support an Anglo-centric cultural project, to resist the emergence of multicultural societies, and to ensure an unchanging notion of a stable English culture on both sides of the Atlantic.
Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900
Author: Richard MenkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492940
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Connects British and American literature to a changing media landscape in an era of innovation.
Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Paul Raphael RooneyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 113758761X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns that underpinned these audiences’ engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, exhibitions, and oral culture.
Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Gowan DawsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667651X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals.
The Punch Brotherhood
Author: Patrick LearyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780712309233
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Punch Brotherhood takes the reader inside this Victorian institution, bringing to life the tightly-knit community of writers, artists, and proprietors who gathered around the Punch Table, and the tumultuous, uninhibited conversations, spiced with jokes and gossip."--Book flap.