

An edition of Print in transition, 1850-1910 (2001)
studies in media and book history
By Laurel Brake
Publish Date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave
Language
eng
Pages
341
Description:
"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.
subjects: History, Publishers and publishing, English periodicals, Sex in mass media, Publishers and publishing, great britain, Périodiques anglais, Histoire, Sexualité dans les médias, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Publishing, Seriële publicaties, Boekhandel, Uitgeven, Sekseverschillen, Career in publishing
People: Walter Pater (1839-1894)
Places: Great Britain
Times: 20th century, 19th century