The Victorian Periodical Press : : Samplings and Soundings / / ed. by Joanne Shattock, Michael Wolff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bennett, Scott,; Gray, Donald J.,; Harrison, Brian,; Houghton, Walter E.,; James, Louis,; Jones, Aled,; Maidment, Brian,; Milne, Maurice,; Roberts, Helene E.,; Robson, Ann P.,; Robson, John M.,; Rosenberg, Sheila,; Shattock, Joanne,; Wolff, Michael,; Woolford, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Shattock, Joanne,; Wolff, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

The centrality of the Victorian periodical press to almost every aspect of Victorian studies has long been acknowledged by scholars of the period. So far no general or systematic study of that press has been undertaken. The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings is a collection of original essays, each of which examines an important aspect of the history of the periodical press. It includes studies of the organization and production of specific periodicals; analyses of the contents and the influence of publications designed for a particular readership; and explorations of the involvement of major literary figures with the periodical press, as well as more broadly based studies of the emergence and significance of the techniques of mass sterilization, the role of the press in the activities of pressure groups, and the involvement of periodicals in the art exhibition system and in the development of literary criticism. The contributors are literary and social historians who have either made a special study of the Victorian periodical press or who have made extensive use of Victorian periodicals in the course of research on the Victorian period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on the contributors -- Introduction -- Part One. THE CRITIC AS JOURNALIST -- 1. Periodical literature and the articulate classes -- 2. Readers fair and foul: John Ruskin and the periodical press -- 3. 'Impetuous eagerness': the young Mill's radical journalism -- 4. Exhibition and review: the periodical press and the Victorian art exhibition system -- 5. Periodicals and the practice of literary criticism, 1855-64 -- Part Two. MANAGEMENT AND MONEY -- 6. Problems of parentage: the North British Review and the Free Church of Scotland -- 7. The financing of radical opinion: John Chapman and the Westminster Review -- 8. Survival of the fittest? Sunderland newspapers 1n the nineteenth century -- 9. Revolutions in thought: serial publication and the mass market for reading -- Part Three. THE NEW READERSHIP -- 10. Press and pressure group 1n modern Britain -- 11. Workmen's advocates: ideology and class in a mid-Victorian labour newspaper system -- 12. Early Victorian scandalous journalism: Renton Nicholson's The Town (1837-42) -- 13. The trouble with Betsy: periodicals and the common reader in mid-nineteenth-century England -- 14. The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, 1850-1872: A Pearl from the Golden Stream -- Index