Nineteenth - Century Media and the Construction of Identities

This collection of important new research in 19th-century media history represents some salient, recent developments in the field. Taking as its theme, the ways the media serves to define identities - national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual, the volume addresses serials in the UK, the US, and Australia. High culture rubs shoulders with the popular press, text with image, feminist periodicals and masculine, gay, and domestic serials. Theory and history combine in research by scholars of international repute. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 George Newnes and the ‘loyal Tit-Bitites’: Editorial Identity and Textual Interaction in Tit-Bits....Pages 11-26 ‘A Simulacrum of Power’: Intimacy and Abstraction in the Rhetoric of the New Journalism....Pages 27-39 Journalistic Discourses and Constructions of Modern Knowledge....Pages 40-53 A Centre that Would not Hold: Annuals and Cultural Democracy....Pages 54-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 A Paradigm of Reading the Victorian Penny Weekly: Education of the Gaze and The London Journal....Pages 77-92 From Street Ballad to Penny Magazine: ‘March of Intellect in the Butchering Line’....Pages 93-103 ‘Penny’ Wise, ‘Penny’ Foolish?: Popular Periodicals and the ‘March of Intellect’ in the 1820s and 1830s....Pages 104-121 ‘Women in Conference’: Reading the Correspondence Columns in Woman 1890–1910....Pages 122-134 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Dickens as Serial Author: A Case of Multiple Identities....Pages 137-153 Authorship, Gender and Power in Victorian Culture: Harriet Martineau and the Periodical Press....Pages 154-164 Work for Women: Margaret Oliphant’s Journalism....Pages 165-177 Israel Zangwill’s Early Journalism and the Formation of an Anglo-Jewish Literary Identity....Pages 178-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 America’s First Feminist Magazine: Transforming the Popular to the Political....Pages 197-219 Coming Apart: The British Newspaper Press and the Divorce Court....Pages 220-231 Saint Pauls Magazine and the Project of Masculinity....Pages 232-252 The Agony Aunt, the Romancing Uncle and the Family of Empire: Defining the Sixpenny Reading Public in the 1890s....Pages 253-270 ‘Gay Discourse’ and The Artist and Journal of Home Culture....Pages 271-291 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 Bad Press: Thomas Campbell Foster and British Reportage on the Irish Famine 1845–1849....Pages 295-309 The Nineteenth-Century Media and Welsh Identity....Pages 310-325 Front Matter....Pages 293-293 ‘Long and Intimate Connections’: Constructing a Scottish Identity for Blackwood’s Magazine....Pages 326-338 Making News, Making Readers: The Creation of the Modern Newspaper Public in Nineteenth-Century France....Pages 339-349 The Virtual Reading Communities of the London Journal, the New York Ledger and the Australian Journal....Pages 350-361 Back Matter....Pages 363-387 This collection of research in 19th-century media history represents some salient developments in the field. Taking as its theme the way the media serves to define national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual identities, the volume addresses serials in the UK, the US, and Australia. This volume represents salient development in the field of 19th century media history. Taking as its theme the way the media serve to define identities, national, ethnic and textual, it investigates serial journals in the UK, France and the USA