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This is a chapter about the effect of a specific production format — a uniform series — on a genr... more This is a chapter about the effect of a specific production format — a uniform series — on a genre such as biography, on the author function, and on the biographical subject. It is comparative, and the study is enhanced because the authors in question and their texts are interactive, with publisher, authors, and texts reflexive.
The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, Aug 14, 2015
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 16, 2017
English Studies, Jul 8, 2016
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2020
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2001
This chapter examines trade papers about the publishing industry itself, in the period in which T... more This chapter examines trade papers about the publishing industry itself, in the period in which The Daily Mail entered the market in May 1896. Trade journals are part of a larger category named in the period ‘class’ periodicals, to designate titles that cater for special interest groups of readers. To put it normatively, class newspapers and periodicals do not have ‘general’ remits which accord with a particular mix of historically and culturally determined miscellaneous topics, including many categories that we recognise from our own dailies, including news of politics and crime, Parliament and the courts, and finance, for example. The category of ‘class’ papers is useful here because it so clearly articulates the hegemonic sway — the existence, strength, and identity — of a ‘default’ position, that of the ‘general’ paper.
D.S. Brewer eBooks, 1995
... APOCALYPSE AND 89 UTOPIA Margaret Beetham HELL INNIT: THE MILLENNIUM IN ALASDAIR GRAY... more ... APOCALYPSE AND 89 UTOPIA Margaret Beetham HELL INNIT: THE MILLENNIUM IN ALASDAIR GRAY'S 115 LANARK, MARTIN AMIS'S LONDON FIELDS, AND SHENA MACKAY'S DUNEDIN Penny Smith LAST DAYS: MILLENNIAL HYSTERIA IN DON 129 DELILLO'S MAO ...
Media History, Sep 11, 2017
The Review of English Studies, Jan 18, 2013
Nineteenth-Century Literature, Dec 1, 1999
The Year's Work in English Studies, 1980
Victorian Studies, Jun 1, 2017
It is still not as clear to most scholars, lecturers, and especially students of literature, as i... more It is still not as clear to most scholars, lecturers, and especially students of literature, as it was to George Saintsbury in 1896, that a corpus of Victorian criticism of quality and range exists; neither are its authors known. Still, numerous books and articles from different angles and disciplines attest to the criticism and avail themselves of it; the author-centred Critical Heritage volumes or works-centred Casebooks, for example, present it referentially, as a satellite of illustrious planets. Biographies of individual critics, research on non-fictional prose as a genre, and even belle-lettrist essays2 serve more self-consciously to bring it to notice, but the most appropriate and revelatory approach has been through the Victorian periodicals where almost all the criticism first appeared.3 The periodicals themselves, and work associated with them such as Walter Graham’s outline of English Literary Periodicals (1930), bibliographies such as The Wellesley Index (1966–89), Alvin Sullivan’s British Literary Magazines (1983–6), and the MLAA two-volume Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research (1978, 1989); and criticism such as Armstrong’s Victorian Scrutinies (1972), Shattock and Wolff’s The Victorian Periodical Press (1982), and Wiener’s Innovators and Preachers (1985) have been instrumental in the identification and understanding of Victorian criticism and critics.
19, Dec 10, 2015
James Mussell: My name is James Mussell, I'm an Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at th... more James Mussell: My name is James Mussell, I'm an Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. Laurel Brake: And I'm Laurel Brake, and I'm an Emerita Professor of Print Culture at Birkbeck. James Mussell: We've been invited to talk today a little bit about digitization and digital periodicals, and what we'd like to do is think a little bit about the digitization of historical periodicals, periodicals that are in the archive and have been put online in various resources; but also to think about the way we use digital periodicals today, to support our scholarship and to reach audiences, both online and offline. Laurel Brake: Yes, and to think about the history, but also the future of 19. We were both very involved in the beginnings of the journey and it was-at the time it would seem to be-quite an innovative thing to do and there weren't many good examples, so we are so delighted to see what's happened in the last decade.
This is a chapter about the effect of a specific production format — a uniform series — on a genr... more This is a chapter about the effect of a specific production format — a uniform series — on a genre such as biography, on the author function, and on the biographical subject. It is comparative, and the study is enhanced because the authors in question and their texts are interactive, with publisher, authors, and texts reflexive.
The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, Aug 14, 2015
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 16, 2017
English Studies, Jul 8, 2016
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2020
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2001
This chapter examines trade papers about the publishing industry itself, in the period in which T... more This chapter examines trade papers about the publishing industry itself, in the period in which The Daily Mail entered the market in May 1896. Trade journals are part of a larger category named in the period ‘class’ periodicals, to designate titles that cater for special interest groups of readers. To put it normatively, class newspapers and periodicals do not have ‘general’ remits which accord with a particular mix of historically and culturally determined miscellaneous topics, including many categories that we recognise from our own dailies, including news of politics and crime, Parliament and the courts, and finance, for example. The category of ‘class’ papers is useful here because it so clearly articulates the hegemonic sway — the existence, strength, and identity — of a ‘default’ position, that of the ‘general’ paper.
D.S. Brewer eBooks, 1995
... APOCALYPSE AND 89 UTOPIA Margaret Beetham HELL INNIT: THE MILLENNIUM IN ALASDAIR GRAY... more ... APOCALYPSE AND 89 UTOPIA Margaret Beetham HELL INNIT: THE MILLENNIUM IN ALASDAIR GRAY'S 115 LANARK, MARTIN AMIS'S LONDON FIELDS, AND SHENA MACKAY'S DUNEDIN Penny Smith LAST DAYS: MILLENNIAL HYSTERIA IN DON 129 DELILLO'S MAO ...
Media History, Sep 11, 2017
The Review of English Studies, Jan 18, 2013
Nineteenth-Century Literature, Dec 1, 1999
The Year's Work in English Studies, 1980
Victorian Studies, Jun 1, 2017
It is still not as clear to most scholars, lecturers, and especially students of literature, as i... more It is still not as clear to most scholars, lecturers, and especially students of literature, as it was to George Saintsbury in 1896, that a corpus of Victorian criticism of quality and range exists; neither are its authors known. Still, numerous books and articles from different angles and disciplines attest to the criticism and avail themselves of it; the author-centred Critical Heritage volumes or works-centred Casebooks, for example, present it referentially, as a satellite of illustrious planets. Biographies of individual critics, research on non-fictional prose as a genre, and even belle-lettrist essays2 serve more self-consciously to bring it to notice, but the most appropriate and revelatory approach has been through the Victorian periodicals where almost all the criticism first appeared.3 The periodicals themselves, and work associated with them such as Walter Graham’s outline of English Literary Periodicals (1930), bibliographies such as The Wellesley Index (1966–89), Alvin Sullivan’s British Literary Magazines (1983–6), and the MLAA two-volume Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research (1978, 1989); and criticism such as Armstrong’s Victorian Scrutinies (1972), Shattock and Wolff’s The Victorian Periodical Press (1982), and Wiener’s Innovators and Preachers (1985) have been instrumental in the identification and understanding of Victorian criticism and critics.
19, Dec 10, 2015
James Mussell: My name is James Mussell, I'm an Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at th... more James Mussell: My name is James Mussell, I'm an Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. Laurel Brake: And I'm Laurel Brake, and I'm an Emerita Professor of Print Culture at Birkbeck. James Mussell: We've been invited to talk today a little bit about digitization and digital periodicals, and what we'd like to do is think a little bit about the digitization of historical periodicals, periodicals that are in the archive and have been put online in various resources; but also to think about the way we use digital periodicals today, to support our scholarship and to reach audiences, both online and offline. Laurel Brake: Yes, and to think about the history, but also the future of 19. We were both very involved in the beginnings of the journey and it was-at the time it would seem to be-quite an innovative thing to do and there weren't many good examples, so we are so delighted to see what's happened in the last decade.