Print in Transition, 1850-1910 Studies in Media and Book History

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ISBN: 9780333770474 | 0333770471
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Copyright: 7/6/2001

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This book examines the outbreak of print in late Victorian Britain. Analyzing categories in new and unique pairings, such as literature and popular culture; books and magazines; publishers and news agents; and media studies and media history, the chapters focus on authorship, production, illustration, and gender. The author uses archival material from publications such as Dickens, Pater, Ruskin, Eliot, Symons, and James, and magazines such as Master Humphrey's Clock , The Westminster Review , Artist and Journal of Home Culture , Publishers' Circular , Yellow book , and Savoy .

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

xiii

Part I Media History: the Serial and the Book

`Trepidation of the Spheres': Serials and Books in the Nineteenth Century

(24)

Star Turn? Magazine, Part-issue, and Book Serialisation

(25)

Sight-reading/finding the rhythm

(5)

Serialisation, production and consumption

(13)

Star turn: from periodical to part-issue

(2)

Format and meaning

(5)

The Serialisation of Books: Macmillan's English Men of Letters Series and the New Biography

(15)

`Doing the Biz': Book-trade and News-trade Periodicals in the 1890s

(20)

Part II Journals and Gender

`Silly Novels'? Gender and the Westminster Review at Mid-century

(23)

The Westminster in the 1850s

(5)

The topicality of gender: brandmarking the Westminster

(6)

From the woman question to the homoerotic: the range of gender in the Westminster

100

(6)

Gender in the North British Review: a comparator

106

(4)

Gay Space: The Artist and Journal of Home Culture

110

(35)

Magazines and the Construction of Identity

110

(1)

The Artist and its readers, 1880-95

110

(9)

The Artist under Kains-Jackson

119

(8)

Backlash? The complexities of the market

127

(2)

The Artist and the Challenge of Cleveland Street, 1889-90

129

(1)

Columns, leaders, and readers

129

(8)

Cleveland Street and The Artist

137

(8)

Gender and the New Journalism: the Yellow Book

145

(26)

Gender

145

(7)

Decadence and journalism

152

(3)

The Yellow Book and the New Woman

155

(6)

The New Journalism

161

(8)

The New Woman and the New Journalism

169

(2)

Marketing Notoriety: Advertising the Savoy

171

(10)

Part III Print and Gender: the Publishing Career of Walter Pater, 1866-95

Studies and the Magazines

181

(16)

The Politics of Illustration: Ruskin, Pater and the Victorian Art Press

197

(16)

After Studies: the Cancelled Book

213

(12)

Appreciations: Aesthetics in the Affray

225

(23)

`Prose' and censorship

226

(22)

The Profession of Letters: Pater's Greek Studies and their Market(s)

248

(20)

Journalism and literature

248

(1)

Greek studies

249

(3)

Greek Studies (1895)

252

(6)

The periodicals and Greek studies

258

(10)

Text

Pater, Symons and the Culture of the Fin de Siecle in Britain

268

(15)

The subject of Pater in the 1890s

268

(3)

Symons, Pater and Decadence

271

(3)

Pater and French culture

274

(6)

Pater and the fin de siecle

280

(3)

Afterword

283

(1)

Notes

284

(22)

Bibliography

306

(15)

Index

321

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Print in Transition, 1850-1910 Studies in Media and Book History

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