Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

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. 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 Containing new research on the contribution of the press to Victorian public life and the public sphere, this exciting new collection focuses on the unique characteristic of the Victorian press and its development of encounters between and among readers, editors and authors. At a time when journalism rivalled Parliament in the power it wielded, its scope seemed ever expanding and its future parallel with other forms of print culture and other professions. It was the heyday of the periodical, and in this heady time readers, editors and writer-journalists vigorously debated diverse questions of the day. These included regional and national politics, literature and visual culture, imperialism, gender issues, class and media power. The contributors to this volume and their varied approaches to the press reflect the diversity of their contexts and disciplines. From daily newspapers to the Yellow Book, Welsh water to imperial administration, the marriage question to gay brothels, these encounters highlight the wide range and compelling interest in Victorian forms of public debate. Encounters in the Victorian Press will appeal to readers of history, politics, art history, literature, the history of the book, media history, gender studies and print culture

using The Term Encounter To Denote Any Debate Or Dialogue By Journalists, Readers, And Editors Responding To Each Others Writing, Brake (literature And Print Culture, U. Of London, Uk) And Codell (art History And English, Arizona State U., Us) Present 12 Papers In Which Scholars Explore A Range Of Topics Suggested By Exchanges Found In Such Publications As eliza Cook's Journal, The illustrated London News, The westminster Review, And The yellow Book. These Encounters Are Mined For What They Reveal About Class, Gender, And Political Relations And Identities In Victorian England. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

'Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press' focuses on the unique characteristics of the Victorian periodical press - its development of encounters between and among readers, editors and authors