Print in transition, 1850-1910 : studies in media and book history

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Title:

Author:

Brake, Laurel, 1941-

ISBN:

9780333770474

Personal Author:

Brake, Laurel, 1941-

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Physical Description:

xv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

pt. I. Media history : the serial and the book -- 'Trepidation of the spheres' : serials and books in the nineteenth century -- Star turn? Magazine, part-issue, and book serialisation -- The serialisation of books : Macmillan's English men of letters series and the new biography -- 'Doing the biz' : book-trade and news-trade periodicals in the 1890s -- pt. II. Journals and gender -- 'Silly novels'? Gender and the Westminster Review at mid-century -- Gay space : the Artist and journal of home culture -- Gender and the new hournalism : the Yellow book -- Marketing notoriety : advertising the Savoy -- pt. III. Print and gender : the publishing career of Walter Pater, 1866-96 -- Studies and the magazines -- The politics of illustration : Ruskin, Pater and the victorian art press -- After studies : the cancelled book -- Appreciations : aesthetics in the affray -- The profession of letters : Pater's Greek studies and their market(s) -- Pater, Symons and the culture of the fin de siècle in Britain.

Abstract:

"This book examines the outbreak of print in late Victorian Britain. It joins categories that are normally separated: literature/popular culture, books/magazines, publishers/newsagents, and media studies/media history. The approach is through material culture, archival material that is theorised and gendered. Chapters focus on authorship, production, and gender in relation to Dickens, Pater, Ruskin, Eliot, Symons, and James, and serials such as Master Humphrey's Clock, the Westminster Review, Artist and Journal of Home Culture, Publishers' Circular, Yellow Book and Savoy."

"Challenging the premise that the book is the unrivalled print format of the period, it draws attention to the ubiquity of serials and the serialisation of books. It explores the pervasive gendering of the press, including Eliot on lady novelists, gay discourse in the Artist, misogyny in the Yellow Book, and the heterosexuality of the Savoy. It contains a chapter on the press and the Cleveland Street affair, and concludes with a study of Walter Pater's publishing career."--Jacket.

Personal Subject:

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894.

Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 (OCoLC)fst00043969

Subject Term:

Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

English periodicals -- History -- 19th century.

English periodicals -- History -- 20th century.

Sex in mass media -- History -- 19th century.

Sex in mass media -- History -- 20th century.

Sex in mass media -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Sex in mass media -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.