W.M. Thackery and the mediated text : writing for periodicals in the mid-nineteenth century

Chapter 1 Investing in the National Standard: representing 'Belles-Lettres' --
chapter 2 Echoes and Narcissisms: repetitions and structures of self across the periodical lines --
signature and persona in the Paris Literary Gazette and Fraser's Magazine --
chapter 3 The foreign correspondent: writing across borders in The Constitutional and The Adventures o f Philip --
chapter 4 Journalistic metamorphoses: women, sensationalism, and periodical fiction --
Catherine: A Story and The Ravenswing in Fraser's Magazine --
chapter 5 Confronting the French: The Paris Sketch-Book and travelling French letters --
chapter 6 The public and the press: journalistic authority, self- advertising, and the periodical commodity in social essays for Fraser's Magazine and Punch --
chapter 7 Deconstructing the press: Punch, the journalistic persona, and the contributor of'Fat' --
chapter 8 Mediahood and manhood in Pendermis --
chapter 9 Warring spirits: Cornhill's 'Notch on the Axe' and Dickens' sensational All the Year Round.