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Introduction: Revolution(s), Evolution(s), Circulation(s) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Françoise Baillet, Kristin Kondrlik
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:Revolution(s), Evolution(s), Circulation(s) Françoise Baillet (bio) and Kristin Kondrlik (bio) The nineteenth-century press was marked by revolutions. Over the course of the century, technological innovation, business strategy, increasing literacy rates, developing networks of distribution, and the gradual elimination of the
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Evolution and Political Revolution in Blackwood's Periodical Poetry Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Anne Dewitt
Abstract: In May 1861, the middlebrow British monthly Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine published a comic poem titled "The Origin of Species." While foregrounding Charles Darwin, the poem portrays evolution as teleological, progressive, and driven by the agency and desires of individual organisms—a misrepresentation of Darwin's theory. I argue that the poem undertakes this misrepresentation deliberately:
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"The Jaws of Civil Discord": Edmond Beales and the Reform League in the Tomahawk (1867) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Françoise Baillet
Abstract: The Tomahawk (1867–70) was a weekly satirical journal whose short existence coincided with the debates around the Second Reform Act. This article examines the Tomahawk's concerns about class, culture, and politics through its treatment of the Reform League and its leader, Edmond Beales, to whom no fewer than twenty-eight pieces were devoted between May and December 1867. By analyzing how
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"An Organ of Their Own": Victorian Print Trade Journals and the Evolution of Graphic Design Thinking Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Jamie Horrocks
Abstract: In 1895, Victorian printer and letterpress historian George Joyner reflected upon the change that had been wrought in the character of British job and book printing, calling it "little short of a revolution!" He is correct; the second half of the nineteenth century saw the transformation of printers into designers. Central to this transformation was the explosion of print trade journals,
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The Power of Public Opinion and the Rise of "Both Sides": Formal Constraints in the British Controversialist Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Jesse Cordes Selbin
Abstract: This essay raises the profile of the understudied British Controversialist (1850–72), a monthly magazine that distinguished itself from peer cultural miscellanies by foregrounding opinion essays by working-class readers that the editors framed as a dialogic forum for gauging and augmenting what they called "the power" of "public opinion." But if the Controversialist sought and achieved a
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Searching for "larrikin*": Using Digitised Newspapers to Trace the Transnational Coverage of Australian Street Gangs, 1870–98 Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Jasper Heeks
Abstract: Digitisation is revitalising nineteenth-century periodicals as historical sources, particularly English-language publications. Far from replicas, these digitised sources have different attributes. Text searchability is one such property that is changing how and what historians can research. This article explores the use of keyword search to trace the transnational circulations of information
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Mapping the Multitudes, Discovering the Margins: Feminist-Focused Macro Network Analysis and a Visualization-Based Digital Archive as Coevolving Digital Humanities Tools Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Andrea Stewart
Abstract: In a post-pandemic world, digital humanities is facing a new moment of opportunity to move beyond the roadblocks of the past—such as resistance to the crossover between feminist and technological projects and a tendency to construct digital tools without specific interpretive intent—and find a blended purpose in developing technological and methodological tools that not only make cultural
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The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1, 1865–1887 by Andrew Hobbs (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Patrick Leary
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1, 1865–1887 by Andrew Hobbs Patrick Leary (bio) Andrew Hobbs, The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1, 1865–1887 (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022), pp. viii + 672, $42.95/£35.95 hardcover, $31.00/£25.95 paperback, open-access e-book
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The Wood Engravers' Self-Portrait: The Dalziel Archive and Victorian Illustration by Bethan Stevens (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Wood Engravers' Self-Portrait: The Dalziel Archive and Victorian Illustration by Bethan Stevens Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (bio) Bethan Stevens, The Wood Engravers' Self-Portrait: The Dalziel Archive and Victorian Illustration (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. xx + 386, £85 hardcover, e-book. The Dalziel
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Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840–1914 by Michelle J. Smith (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Julia McCord Chavez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840–1914 by Michelle J. Smith Julia McCord Chavez (bio) Michelle J. Smith, Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840–1914 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), pp. 224, $110/£85 hardcover. In Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature
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Biographies Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Biographies Françoise Baillet is Professor of British History and Culture at Université Caen Normandie, France. Her research addresses the role of the periodical press in shaping class, gender, and national identities in nineteenth-century Britain. She has published several articles related to Victorian cultural history and print culture
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Endnotes Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-11-19
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Endnotes Call for Guest Editors Victorian Periodicals Review invites proposals from guest editors for special themed issues to be published in 2025, 2026, and 2027. Individuals or coeditors should submit a proposal to Katherine Malone (vpr@rs4vp.org). Please include a short description of your topic and its relevance to Victorian periodical
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Against Imitation: Anti-Colonial Caricatures in Basantak, or the Bengali Punch Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Sourav Chatterjee
Abstract: In 1874, Prannath Dutta published the satirical periodical Basantak to undermine obscenity laws and caricature the rational, militant masculinity of British administrators by depicting them as venal and incompetent to administer British India. Basantak's farces draw on various Indian literary and visual forms and genres. The jester-like omniscient narrator called Basantak—modeled after the
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Her Speech Betrays Her: The New Woman and Gendered Slang in the Periodical Press Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Alycia Gilbert
Abstract: To Victorian prescriptivists writing for the periodical press, slang threatened the sanctity of the English language. While their complaint texts criticize slang as lower-class vulgarity, this language policing also fixates on the slang vocabularies of female speakers. By tracing three gender-based language ideologies expressed in Victorian periodicals—that women learn slang from men, that
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The Daisy Basket and the Rise of the Young Vegetarian Subject Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Marzena Kubisz
Abstract: In 1893, the first vegetarian children's magazine to appear regularly, the Daisy Basket, was published in Manchester. This article locates the magazine in a broader context of the British vegetarian movement in the late nineteenth century and analyzes its content, structure, and tone. It argues that the Daisy Basket can be read as a strategy employed to enable the rise of the young vegetarian
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"Nearest Approach to Fairyland": Mythologising Scotland in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh Periodical Travel-Writing and Tourism Advertisements Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Sofia Lago
Abstract: This article investigates descriptions of the Scottish landscape in travel writing and tourism advertisements published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1800 to 1900. Its main objective is to analyze the ways in which periodical nature writing simultaneously created a vicarious interaction with the countryside for the reader and revealed the effects that
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Making a Name for Herself: Marie Corelli's Self-Guided Literary Apprenticeship via the Periodical Press Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Joanna Turner
Abstract: This article uncovers the hidden periodical publishing history of the popular novelist Marie Corelli (ca. 1855–1924). It takes her career back a decade from what is currently known, unveiling poetry, satire, critiques, and short form writing. Corelli is shown to be navigating the periodical press through the 1870s and 1880s whilst using several pseudonyms and taking on male identities, conducting
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Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People by Carolyn Vellenga Berman (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Katie Holdway
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People by Carolyn Vellenga Berman Katie Holdway (bio) Carolyn Vellenga Berman, Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), pp. ix + 353, $115/ £90 cloth. Bookended by the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867
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Periodical Studies Today: Multidisciplinary Analyses ed. by Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, and Oliver Scheiding (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Solveig C. Robinson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Periodical Studies Today: Multidisciplinary Analyses ed. by Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, and Oliver Scheiding Solveig C. Robinson (bio) Jutta Ernst, Dagmar von Hoff, and Oliver Scheiding, eds., Periodical Studies Today: Multidisciplinary Analyses ( Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. xix + 481, $150 hardcover, open access e-book. Periodical
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Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain by Katherine Judith Anderson (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Iain Crawford
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain by Katherine Judith Anderson Iain Crawford (bio) Katherine Judith Anderson, Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain ( Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. xi + 214, $69.95 hardcover. Katherine Judith Anderson's Twisted Words: Torture and
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Biographies Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Biographies Sourav Chatterjee is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. His research interests are South Asian visual culture, literary and cultural criticism, printed imagetext, and decolonial gender epistemologies. His dissertation traces printed imagetexts
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Endnotes Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-08-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Endnotes Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize The winner of this year's Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize is Mila Daskalova (University of Strathclyde). Her project, "Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum," examines periodicals printed in mental asylums in the United States and Britain between 1836 and 1878. The
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Popular Assembly and Political Subjectivity in the European Illustrated Press of the 1840s Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Jakob Kihlberg
Abstract: Historical research on how people have come to identify as part of "the people" as a political collective has not paid much attention to the development of a market for visual news. To show how this market might have shaped political subjectivity, this essay analyses how magazines like the Illustrated London News, L'Illustration, and the Illustrirte Zeitung created a standardized pictorial
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Kamala Satthianadhan and the Indian Ladies' Magazine: Women's Editorship and Transnational Print Networks in Late Colonial India Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Tara Puri
Abstract: The Indian Ladies' Magazine, launched in 1901 under the editorship of Kamala Satthianadhan, quickly evolved into a platform where the future of Indian womanhood was fiercely debated. Publishing anonymous writers alongside household names like Sarojini Naidu, it made a crucial intervention in the ongoing conversation about the public and private roles of Indian women at a time when both colonial
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Dialogic Forms in Freethought Periodicals: Free Discussion and Open Debate Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Clare Stainthorp
Abstract: The nineteenth-century freethought movement championed atheist, agnostic, and secularist ideals alongside social radicalism more broadly. This article focuses on two of the periodicals that arose from this primarily working- and artisan-class movement: National Reformer (1860–93) and Secular Review/Agnostic Journal (1876–1907). Through debates, dialogues, and correspondence, the editors of
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The Poet as Fundraiser: Writing Catchpenny Verse at Times of Military Crisis in the Nineteenth Century Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Tai-Chun Ho
Abstract: This essay considers the evolution of nineteenth-century fundraising verse in the British press by tracing how three noncombatant poets—Sir Walter Scott, Tom Taylor, and Rudyard Kipling—raised money for suffering soldiers and their families in the aftermath of Waterloo (1815) and Alma (1854) and during the early stages of the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). By investigating Romantic and Victorian
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Spoiler Alert: The Sensation Novel and Victorian Criticism Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Clayton Carlyle Tarr
Abstract: The spoiler, a persistent concern of the internet age, has roots in the mid-nineteenth century during the dawn of new media. In the early 1860s, Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon asked periodical reviewers not to reveal the plots of their novels. These requests elicited responses ranging from begrudging compliance to outright refusal. Not only had critics become accustomed to providing
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The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings, Forty Years On Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Joanne Shattock
Abstract: This retrospective article reflects on the publication and influence of Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff's field-defining collection, The Victorian Periodical Press: Samplings and Soundings (1982).
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Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918 by Alison Hedley (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Emma Liggins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918 by Alison Hedley Emma Liggins (bio) Alison Hedley, Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021), pp. 187, $85/ £70.99 hardcover. Drawing on media studies
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Illustration in Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Romance Fiction by Kate Holterhoff (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Catherine J. Golden
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Illustration in Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Romance Fiction by Kate Holterhoff Catherine J. Golden (bio) Kate Holterhoff, Illustration in Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Romance Fiction (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. xi + 198, $150 hardcover. In her study of illustration of inexpressible wonders accompanying fin de siècle romance
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Pictures of Poverty: The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations by Lydia Jakobs (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 John Plunkett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Pictures of Poverty: The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations by Lydia Jakobs John Plunkett (bio) Lydia Jakobs, Pictures of Poverty: The Works of George R. Sims and Their Screen Adaptations (New Barnet: John Libbey, 2021), pp. ix + 266, $39/ £34.66 paperback. Was there any creative endeavour that George R.
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Visions et divisions: Discours culturels de "Punch" et ordre social victorien (1850–1880) by Françoise Baillet (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Eloïse Forestier
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Visions et divisions: Discours culturels de "Punch" et ordre social victorien (1850–1880) by Françoise Baillet Eloïse Forestier (bio) Françoise Baillet, Visions et divisions: Discours culturels de "Punch" et ordre social victorien (1850–1880) (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2022), pp. 254, €30 paperback. Another
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Julia Wedgwood, the Unexpected Victorian: The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual by Sue Brown (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Mercedes Sheldon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Julia Wedgwood, the Unexpected Victorian: The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual by Sue Brown Mercedes Sheldon (bio) Sue Brown, Julia Wedgwood, the Unexpected Victorian: The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual (London: Anthem Press, 2022), pp. viii + 384, $150/ £100 hardcover. Born into the
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Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800–1918 by Bill Bell (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Rebecca Nesvet
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800–1918 by Bill Bell Rebecca Nesvet (bio) Bill Bell, Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800–1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. xx + 271, $45 hardcover. On September 30, 1848, London Chartist leader William Cuffay was convicted for conspiring to
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu by Aoife Mary Dempsey (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Meaghan Scott
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu by Aoife Mary Dempsey Meaghan Scott (bio) Aoife Mary Dempsey, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022), pp. x + 224, $88 hardcover. In Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Aoife Mary Dempsey examines Le Fanu's legacy, providing fresh interpretations of his short stories and novels within
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Endnotes Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-05-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Endnotes Rosemary VanArsdel Prize The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of RSVP whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical
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Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reviewing: Communication, Compression, and Commerce Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Laurel Brake, Fionnuala Dillane, Mark W. Turner
Abstract: The book review is a mercurial mode. Is it a genre, a form, or a techne? Is the review so capacious in expression and function that it discourages efforts to talk about it in general terms? Is it as a textual object separable from the act of reviewing; that is, does the noun always imply the verb? How do we navigate the range of affordances that attach to reviewing as a process, a profession
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Reviews as Re-Views: Onymity, Pseudonymity, Anonymity, and Kotzebue's Life Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Nora Ramtke
Abstract: This article builds on the etymological roots of the term “review” to explore the idea of the review as a re-view and to examine its metaphorical implications and fictional potential. Drawing on the German author and playwright August von Kotzebue, who had featured prominently on the British stage before he was assassinated in 1819, this article discusses Kotzebue’s onymous weekly Literarisches
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Reviewers and Reviewees: Margaret Oliphant's Literary Criticism and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Sensation Novels Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Isabel Seidel
Abstract: After Margaret Oliphant referred to Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leader of the bigamy school of fiction in an 1867 Blackwood’s review, Braddon commissioned George Augustus Sala to write a riposte for her magazine, Belgravia. Scholars have explored the effect of Oliphant’s criticism on Braddon and Belgravia, but little attention has been paid to the fact that Oliphant responded directly to
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Crafting the Professional Reader: Book Reviews in the Military and Medical Press Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Alison Moulds, Beth Gaskell
Abstract: This article examines nonprofessional book reviews in journals aimed at two traditional professional fields: medicine and the military. The review columns of the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Medical Press and Circular, United Service Journal, the Broad Arrow, and the United Service Gazette covered a surprisingly diverse range of subjects, including fiction, travel writing, history, and
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"Literary dealers in the rococo of history": Book Reviews and Historical Specialisation, 1820–50 Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Porscha Fermanis
Abstract: This article examines how reviews of written history worked to establish new historical protocols, technical vocabulary, and field knowledge in organs of higher journalism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing primarily on questions of generic differentiation and disciplinary formation, rather than on those of institutional or bureaucratic professionalisation, this article
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To Swell a Scene: Reviewing Books and History in Mookerjee's Magazine Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Priti Joshi
Abstract: This essay examines the Calcutta-based Mookerjee’s Magazine (1861, 1872–76) as a case to examine shifts in the review function in Indian-edited magazines in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In the anti-colonial nation-making that swept over much of the Indian subcontinent, book reviews were pressed into the role of producing indigenous histories. The turn to history altered the
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"Cool" Reading: Bagehot, the Book Review, and the Fiction of Literary Knowledge Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Jonathan Farina
Abstract: This article situates Walter Bagehot’s reviews in the history of modern knowledge provided by Alan Liu’s The Laws of Cool. I suggest this epistemic disposition emerges in the 1860s as book reviews transition from summary arbiters of taste into new knowledge. Bagehot’s essays are technically reviews, occasioned by biographies, editions, and scholarly books about authors. Yet Bagehot subordinates
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Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire and Will Slauter (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Julie Codell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire and Will Slauter Julie Codell (bio) Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire and Will Slauter, eds., Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Open
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Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s by Alison Moulds (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Kristin E. Kondrlik
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s by Alison Moulds Kristin E. Kondrlik (bio) Alison Moulds, Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. xiv + 288, $119.99/£89.99 hard-cover. In the Victorian era, reform legislation, pressure to professionalize, divisions between
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Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere by Stefano Evangelista (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Emma Liggins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere by Stefano Evangelista Emma Liggins (bio) Stefano Evangelista, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 290, $90/£70 hardcover. What did it mean to be cosmopolitan at the
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Vagrancy and the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Alistair Robinson (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Luke Seaber
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Vagrancy and the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Alistair Robinson Luke Seaber (bio) Alistair Robinson, Vagrancy and the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp
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Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America ed. by Ann R. Hawkins et al (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Douglas A. Guerra
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America ed. by Ann R. Hawkins et al Douglas A. Guerra (bio) Ann R. Hawkins, Erin Bistline, Catherine S. Blackwell, and Maura Ives, eds., Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America (Albany: SUNY Press, 2021), pp. xv + 383, $95/£68.43 cloth. Play always has an experimental
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Biographies Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Biographies Laurel Brake is Professor Emerita in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, an Honorary Fellow there, and a Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies. Her research interests are nineteenth-century media history and print culture, gender, Walter Pater, and digital humanities. She is author
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Endnotes Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Katherine Malone, Fionnuala Dillane
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Endnotes Katherine Malone, VPR Editor and Fionnuala Dillane, RSVP President VPR Fall/Winter 2022 Over the past two years, RSVP has worked to sustain a vibrant scholarly community and add value to our membership despite the challenges of pandemic lockdowns, travel bans, and changes to academic workloads. Though we were unable to gather
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"Keeping Christmas" on the Page: The Adelaide Observer, Alice in Wonderland, and the Australian Periodical at Play Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Elizabeth Howard
Abstract: This article explores the rise of diversion genres in the South Australian Adelaide Observer in the 1860s. Setting examples of the Australian periodical at play within a larger British context of competitive leisure, I argue that the Observer's Christmas pages present competitive periodical diversions as essential to observing the holiday. Further, the Observer's serial reprinting of Alice
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Feminist Networks Connecting Dublin and London: Sarah Atkinson, Bessie Rayner Parkes, and the Power of the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Geraldine Brassil
Abstract: Sarah Atkinson's significant friendship with Bessie Rayner Parkes becomes visible only by tracing it through letters, memoirs, and articles published in a range of nineteenth-century periodicals. These archival excavations reveal a complex and empowering transnational network forged across apparently conservative, often male-dominated, and mainly Catholic publications as well as publications
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Abetting "Literary Sins": The Dickensian and the Drood Phenomenon Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Kari Daly
Abstract: This essay examines why the years between 1905 and 1915 generated a massive amount of commentary concerning Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Building on Don Richard Cox's influential bibliography of the novel's reception, I suggest that the Dickens Fellowship's journal, the Dickensian, actively cultivated a new audience of Dickens readers through its careful curation of Droodiana
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Image, Consumerism, and the New Woman: Gordon Browne's Illustrations for The Sorceress of the Strand Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Amy Valine
Abstract: In Gordon Browne's illustrations for L. T. Meade's The Sorceress of the Strand, images of female victims and a male detective reflect cultural stereotypes of women as both beauty-obsessed consumers and beautiful objects of visual consumption. The illustrations mirror the consumeristic objectification behind the Strand's advertisements, which use images of women's bodies to market beauty products
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Eliza Orme and the Women's Gazette and Weekly News: Editing the Organ of a Fractious Federation, 1888–92 Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Leslie Howsam
Abstract: The Women's Gazette and Weekly News (1888–92), which documented the political work of the Women's Liberal Federation, was one of those periodicals that functioned in the construction of Victorian women's political identities. Eliza Orme (1848–1937) was the second and longest serving of its three editors. This article offers an account of the periodical's inauguration, development, and demise
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New Work on British-Indian Periodicals Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Tanya Agathocleous, Priti Joshi
Abstract: In this occasional VPR feature, two authors provide brief reviews of each other's books and then discuss the issues, research methods, and periodicals they engage with in their work, as well as broader concerns within periodicals research. The format encourages scholars to think together about how their work overlaps and contributes to the field of periodicals studies. This installment focuses
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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation by Clara Dawson, and: Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library by Andrew M. Stauffer (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Alison Chapman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation by Clara Dawson, and: Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library by Andrew M. Stauffer Alison Chapman Clara Dawson, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 238, $77 hardcover. Andrew M. Stauffer, Book
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The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction by Rob Breton (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Rebecca Nesvet
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction by Rob Breton Rebecca Nesvet Rob Breton, The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021), pp. vii + 234, £80 hardcover. Did the penny bloods, dreadfuls, and other penny-a-number publications of the 1840s to 1860s peddle mindless
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Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: Sketches by Seymour and Comic Illustration by Brian Maidment (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Jo Devereux
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: Sketches by Seymour and Comic Illustration by Brian Maidment Jo Devereux Brian Maidment, Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: Sketches by Seymour and Comic Illustration (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. vii + 191, $128 hardcover, $39.16 e-book. As Brian Maidment
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Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life by Juliet Shields (review) Victorian Periodicals Review Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Jack M. Downs
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life by Juliet Shields Jack M. Downs Juliet Shields, Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. vii + 204, $99.99 cloth. As Juliet Shields begins her