Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press focuses on the unique characteristic of the Victorian periodical press--its development of encounters between and among readers, editors, and authors. Encounters promoted dialogue among diverse publics, differing by class, gender, professional and political interests, and ethnicity. Through encounters, the press emerged to become a central public space for debates about society, politics, culture, public order, and foreign and imperial affairs. This book captures the richness of these interactions and a variety of voices and opinions.
Author(s): Laurel Brake, Julie F. Codell
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 248
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: Encountering the Press......Page 16
Part I Early Victorian Press Encounters......Page 24
1 Civic Publicness: The Creation of Queen Victoria’s Royal Role 1837–61......Page 26
2 ‘Nothing but a Newspaper’: The Contested Space of Serial Fiction in the 1840s Press......Page 44
3 Textual Encounters in Eliza Cook’s Journal: Class, Gender, and Sexuality......Page 65
Part II Encountering Gender and Class......Page 82
4 Encountering Time: Memory and Tradition in the Radical Victorian Press......Page 84
5 Preaching to the Ladies: Florence Fenwick Miller and her Readers in the Illustrated London News......Page 103
6 Knowing Hodge: The Third Reform Bill and the Victorian Periodical Press......Page 118
Part III Urban Encounters......Page 132
7 Encounters in the Westminster Review: Dialogues on Marriage and Divorce......Page 134
8 Urban Encounters and Visual Play in the Yellow Book......Page 153
9 The ‘Atlas’ and the Butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and the World......Page 176
Part IV Political Encounters......Page 190
10 The Dart and the Damning of the Sylvan Stream: Journalism and Political Culture in the Late-Victorian City......Page 192
11 Islam, Women, and Imperial Administration: Encounters and Antagonisms between British and Colonial Authors in the Victorian Press......Page 210
12 ‘Government by Journalism’ and the Silence of the Star: Victorian Encounters, 1885–90......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 251
A......Page 264
C......Page 265
D......Page 267
F......Page 268
G......Page 269
I......Page 270
K......Page 271
M......Page 272
N......Page 274
P......Page 275
R......Page 277
S......Page 278
U......Page 280
W......Page 281
Z......Page 283
