Print in Transition, 1850-1910 Studies in Media and Book History

by Brake, Laurel

• ISBN13: 9780333770474
• ISBN10: 0333770471
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book examines the outbreak of print in late Victorian Britain. Analyzing categories in new and unique pairings, such as literature and popular culture; books and magazines; publishers and news agents; and media studies and media history, the chapters focus on authorship, production, illustration, and gender. The author uses archival material from publications such as Dickens, Pater, Ruskin, Eliot, Symons, and James, and magazines such as Master Humphrey's Clock , The Westminster Review , Artist and Journal of Home Culture , Publishers' Circular , Yellow book , and Savoy .

Author Biography

Laurel Brake is Professor in Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	xiii
Part I Media History: the Serial and the Book
`Trepidation of the Spheres': Serials and Books in the Nineteenth Century	3	(24)
Star Turn? Magazine, Part-issue, and Book Serialisation	27	(25)
Sight-reading/finding the rhythm	27	(5)
Serialisation, production and consumption	32	(13)
Star turn: from periodical to part-issue	45	(2)
Format and meaning	47	(5)
The Serialisation of Books: Macmillan's English Men of Letters Series and the New Biography	52	(15)
`Doing the Biz': Book-trade and News-trade Periodicals in the 1890s	67	(20)
Part II Journals and Gender
`Silly Novels'? Gender and the Westminster Review at Mid-century	87	(23)
The Westminster in the 1850s	89	(5)
The topicality of gender: brandmarking the Westminster	94	(6)
From the woman question to the homoerotic: the range of gender in the Westminster	100	(6)
Gender in the North British Review: a comparator	106	(4)
Gay Space: The Artist and Journal of Home Culture	110	(35)
Magazines and the Construction of Identity	110	(1)
The Artist and its readers, 1880-95	110	(9)
The Artist under Kains-Jackson	119	(8)
Backlash? The complexities of the market	127	(2)
The Artist and the Challenge of Cleveland Street, 1889-90	129	(1)
Columns, leaders, and readers	129	(8)
Cleveland Street and The Artist	137	(8)
Gender and the New Journalism: the Yellow Book	145	(26)
Gender	145	(7)
Decadence and journalism	152	(3)
The Yellow Book and the New Woman	155	(6)
The New Journalism	161	(8)
The New Woman and the New Journalism	169	(2)
Marketing Notoriety: Advertising the Savoy	171	(10)
Part III Print and Gender: the Publishing Career of Walter Pater, 1866-95
Studies and the Magazines	181	(16)
The Politics of Illustration: Ruskin, Pater and the Victorian Art Press	197	(16)
After Studies: the Cancelled Book	213	(12)
Appreciations: Aesthetics in the Affray	225	(23)
`Prose' and censorship	226	(22)
The Profession of Letters: Pater's Greek Studies and their Market(s)	248	(20)
Journalism and literature	248	(1)
Greek studies	249	(3)
Greek Studies (1895)	252	(6)
The periodicals and Greek studies	258	(10)
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Pater, Symons and the Culture of the Fin de Siecle in Britain	268	(15)
The subject of Pater in the 1890s	268	(3)
Symons, Pater and Decadence	271	(3)
Pater and French culture	274	(6)
Pater and the fin de siecle	280	(3)
Afterword	283	(1)
Notes	284	(22)
Bibliography	306	(15)
Index	321