Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
George Newnes and the ‘loyal Tit-Bitites’: Editorial Identity and Textual Interaction in Tit-Bits....Pages 11-26
‘A Simulacrum of Power’: Intimacy and Abstraction in the Rhetoric of the New Journalism....Pages 27-39
Journalistic Discourses and Constructions of Modern Knowledge....Pages 40-53
A Centre that Would not Hold: Annuals and Cultural Democracy....Pages 54-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
A Paradigm of Reading the Victorian Penny Weekly: Education of the Gaze and The London Journal....Pages 77-92
From Street Ballad to Penny Magazine: ‘March of Intellect in the Butchering Line’....Pages 93-103
‘Penny’ Wise, ‘Penny’ Foolish?: Popular Periodicals and the ‘March of Intellect’ in the 1820s and 1830s....Pages 104-121
‘Women in Conference’: Reading the Correspondence Columns in Woman 1890–1910....Pages 122-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Dickens as Serial Author: A Case of Multiple Identities....Pages 137-153
Authorship, Gender and Power in Victorian Culture: Harriet Martineau and the Periodical Press....Pages 154-164
Work for Women: Margaret Oliphant’s Journalism....Pages 165-177
Israel Zangwill’s Early Journalism and the Formation of an Anglo-Jewish Literary Identity....Pages 178-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
America’s First Feminist Magazine: Transforming the Popular to the Political....Pages 197-219
Coming Apart: The British Newspaper Press and the Divorce Court....Pages 220-231
Saint Pauls Magazine and the Project of Masculinity....Pages 232-252
The Agony Aunt, the Romancing Uncle and the Family of Empire: Defining the Sixpenny Reading Public in the 1890s....Pages 253-270
‘Gay Discourse’ and The Artist and Journal of Home Culture....Pages 271-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Bad Press: Thomas Campbell Foster and British Reportage on the Irish Famine 1845–1849....Pages 295-309
The Nineteenth-Century Media and Welsh Identity....Pages 310-325
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
‘Long and Intimate Connections’: Constructing a Scottish Identity for Blackwood’s Magazine....Pages 326-338
Making News, Making Readers: The Creation of the Modern Newspaper Public in Nineteenth-Century France....Pages 339-349
The Virtual Reading Communities of the London Journal, the New York Ledger and the Australian Journal....Pages 350-361
Back Matter....Pages 363-387