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.
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; L.Brake& J.F.Codell PART I: EARLY VICTORIAN PRESS ENCOUNTERS Civic publicness: The creation of Queen Victoria's royal role 1837-1870; J.Plunkett 'Nothing but a newspaper': Serializing fiction in the press in the 1840s; G.Law Textual encounters of class, gender, and sexuality in Eliza Cook's Journal ; J.M.Smith PART II: ENCOUNTERING GENDER AND CLASS Encountering time: Memory and tradition in the radical Victorian press; I.Haywood Preaching to the ladies: Florence Fenwick-Miller and her readers in the Illustrated London News B.Onslow Knowing Hodge: The Third Reform Bill and the Victorian periodical press; P.O'Hara PART III: URBAN ENCOUNTERS Encounters in the Westminster Review : dialogues on marriage and divorce; S.Rosenberg Urban encounters and visual play in the Yellow Book ; M.W.Turner The 'Atlas' and the butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and The World ; P.de Montfort PART IV: POLITICAL ENCOUNTERS The Dart and the damning of the sylvan stream: journalism and political culture in the late Victorian city; A.Jones Islam, women, and imperial administration: Encounters and antagonisms between British and colonial authors in the Victorian press; J.F. Codell 'Government by journalism' and the silence of the Star : Victorian encounters, 1885 -1890; L.Brake Bibliography Index
