Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers

277 Pages·2005·1.72 MB·English

by  Laurel Brake, Julie F. Codell (eds.)

Encounters in the Victorian Press
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
General Editor: Joseph Bristow, Professor of English, UCLA
Editorial Advisory Board: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, University of
London;Josephine McDonagh, Linacre College, University of Oxford; Yopie
Prins, University of Michigan; Lindsay Smith, University of Sussex; Margaret
D. Stetz, University of Delaware; Jenny Bourne Taylor, University of Sussex
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Cultureis a new monograph
series that aims to represent the most innovative research on literary works
that were produced in the English-speaking world from the time of the
Napoleonic Wars to the fin de siècle. Attentive to the historical continuities
between ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’, the series will feature studies that help
scholarship to reassess the meaning of these terms during a century marked by
diverse cultural, literary, and political movements. The main aim of the series
is to look at the increasing influence of types of historicism on our
understanding of literary forms and genres. It reflects the shift from critical
theory to cultural history that has affected not only the period 1800–1900 but
also every field within the discipline of English literature. All titles in the series
seek to offer fresh critical perspectives and challenging readings of both
canonical and non-canonical writings of this era.
Titles include:
Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell (editors)
ENCOUNTERS IN THE VICTORIAN PRESS
Editors, Authors, Readers
Dennis Denisoff
SEXUAL VISUALITY FROM LITERATURE TO FILM, 1850–1950
Laura E. Franey
VICTORIAN TRAVEL WRITING AND IMPERIAL VIOLENCE
Lawrence Frank
VICTORIAN DETECTIVE FICTION AND THE NATURE OF EVIDENCE
The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle
Encounters in the
Victorian Press
Editors, Authors, Readers
Edited by
Laurel Brake
and
Julie F. Codell
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Encounters in the Victorian press:editors,authors,readers / edited by
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. English literature – 19th century – History and criticism.
2. Periodicals – Publishing – Great Britain – History – 19th century.
3. Authors and publishers – Great Britain – History – 19th century.
4. Literature publishing – Great Britain – History – 19th century.
5. Authors and readers – Great Britain – History – 19th century.
6. Books and reading – Great Britain – History – 19th century.
7. Great Britain – Intellectual life – 19th century. 8. Press – Great
Britain – History – 19th century. 9. English periodicals – History –
19th century. 10. Editing – History – 19th century. I. Brake,
Laurel,1941– II. Codell,Julie F. III. Series.
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In Memory
of
Josef Altholz
and
Barbara Quinn Schmidt
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Tables x
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Introduction: Encountering the Press 1
Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell
Part I: Early Victorian Press Encounters
1. Civic Publicness: The Creation of Queen Victoria’s
Royal Role 1837–61 11
John Plunkett
2. ‘Nothing but a Newspaper’: The Contested Space of
Serial Fiction in the 1840s Press 29
Graham Law
3. Textual Encounters in Eliza Cook’s Journal: Class,
Gender, and Sexuality 50
Johanna M. Smith
Part II: Encountering Gender and Class
4. Encountering Time: Memory and Tradition in the
Radical Victorian Press 69
Ian Haywood
5. Preaching to the Ladies: Florence Fenwick Miller
and her Readers in the Illustrated London News 88
Barbara Onslow
6. Knowing Hodge: The Third Reform Bill and
the Victorian Periodical Press 103
Patricia O’Hara
Part III: Urban Encounters
7. Encounters in the Westminster Review: Dialogues
on Marriage and Divorce 119
Sheila Rosenberg
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8. Urban Encounters and Visual Play in the Yellow Book 138
Mark W. Turner
9. The ‘Atlas’ and the Butterfly: James McNeill Whistler,
Edmund Yates and the World 161
Patricia de Montfort
Part IV: Politicial Encounters
10. The Dart and the Damning of the Sylvan Stream:
Journalism and Political Culture in the Late-Victorian City 177
Aled Jones
11. Islam, Women, and Imperial Administration:
Encounters and Antagonisms between British and
Colonial Authors in the Victorian Press 195
Julie F. Codell
12. ‘Government by Journalism’ and the Silence of
the Star: Victorian Encounters, 1885–90 213
Laurel Brake
Bibliography 236
Index 249
Compiled by Drusilla Calvert
List of Illustrations
1. ‘There’s no place like home’, Punch, 9 (1845), 109.
Courtesy of University of Exeter Library. 19
2. Front-page coverage of the British royal family
1842–62. 23
3. ‘Queen Victoria’s Visit to Birmingham’, Illustrated
London News, 3 July 1858, 1. Courtesy of University of
Exeter Library. 25
4. ‘Queen Victoria’s Visit to Liverpool’, Illustrated
London News, 2 Oct 1851, 489. Courtesy of University
of Exeter Library. 26
5. ‘Monument to the memory of Henry Hunt’,
front page of the Northern Star, 20 August 1842. 76
6. Aubrey Beardsley, Cover, Yellow Book, I, April 1894. 143
7. Aubrey Beardsley, Cover, Yellow Book, III, October 1894. 145
8. Walter Sickert, ‘The Bedford Music Hall’, reproduced
in Yellow Book, II, July 1894. 146
9. Title page, Dart, 13 May 1892. 179
10. ‘The Slavery of the Rate Craze!’, Dart, 11
March 1892. 187
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