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Victorian Studies, 2020
If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination... more If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections.
Encounters in the Victorian Press, 2005
Remembering the 1890s In his recent collection of poems, The Yellow Book (1997), the Irish poet a... more Remembering the 1890s In his recent collection of poems, The Yellow Book (1997), the Irish poet and journalist Derek Mahon draws on the literary culture and decadent spirit of the 1890s to comment on the weariness of postmodern cosmopolitanism he perceives a century later. In the opening poem, 'Landscape', Mahon positions himself as a Baudelairean metropolitan observer, peering out from an attic and deciphering the cityscape: Chastely to write these eclogues I need to lie, like the astrologers, in an attic next the sky where, high among church spires, I can dream and hear their grave hymns wind-blown to my ivory tower. Chin in hand, up here in my apartment block, I can see workshops full of noise and talk, cranes and masts of the ocean-going city, vast cloud formations dreaming about eternity. 1 So begins a collection of poems that takes us to Dublin, Paris, London, New York, and elsewhere-weaving together the cultural histories of these cities with the present day, contrasting the exuberance of the late nineteenth century with the less satisfying, fragmented global urbanism of the present. In a later poem, 'Remembering the '90s', the speaker recalls the 1890s and passes judgment on the 1990s; he finds 'those desperate characters of the previous '90s/slaves of the Siren, consorts of the Sphinx/like Dowson, Johnson, Symons and Le Gallienne' (Mahon, 28) to be the heroes of modernity. In the speaker's recollection of literary life in the 1890s: L. Brake et al. (eds.
Trollope and the Magazines, 2000
Nineteenth-century periodical studies is a field of research which continues to be defined and re... more Nineteenth-century periodical studies is a field of research which continues to be defined and redefined. Students and scholars of history, literature, sciences, visual arts, and more recently demarcated fields such as media and cultural studies all have found in periodicals a rich archive of literature. Certainly, they have never been neglected as a source of information, and since the late nineteenth century and the beginnings of English studies, periodicals have been mined for what their fiction, non-fiction, advertisements, and illustrations reveal about Victorian society. Numerous books have been published on specific publishing houses such as Macmillan and specific periodicals such as the Saturday Review and the Fortnightly Review, and these works are important for their contribution to our understanding of press history and the development of the institutions around periodicals. Furthermore, books about individual editors and publishers are plentiful, which also add to our knowledge about the field of periodical studies, and such work continues to be significant and important. A great deal of archival work remains for literary historians and others; however, such studies do not represent all that can or should be studied in relation to periodical literature.
Propelled by new printing and dissemination technologies, a global network of print and electroni... more Propelled by new printing and dissemination technologies, a global network of print and electronic media and communications had enveloped much of the globe by the end of the nineteenth century. Part of this network was an explosion of serial print media and terminology categorizing such media in the press and on the literary marketplace. G.W.M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London serves as a case study on the unruliness of the serial city mystery genre, as well as the necessity of centering the serial in discourse on nineteenth-century popular media.
Trollope and the Magazines, 2000
One of the ways we can begin to appreciate the complexity of serial literature is to focus on the... more One of the ways we can begin to appreciate the complexity of serial literature is to focus on the relationship between the serial novel and the periodical. Such an approach poses its own set of questions: what are some of the ways we might read the fiction both as an integral part of the magazine and as only one element of the single magazine issue rubbing up against all of the other contributions? How do the articles and fiction in a magazine intersect with cultural debates outside the magazine? How does the magazine carve out its own identity — create its niche market — from the other literary magazines and texts continually in circulation? I assume that intertextuality is the most useful methodological approach to help us understand the intersections and overlappings which occur within and across magazines. This suggests that periodicals are essentially dialogic literary texts. Serialization, in which only a small part of a larger text is put into play alongside all sorts of different texts, provides the opportunity to see how debates and discourses within a periodical reverberate in the wider cultural world outside the magazine.
The News of the World and the British Press, 1843–2011, 2016
‘It stands first in point of circulation of all the journals exclusively dedicated to public inte... more ‘It stands first in point of circulation of all the journals exclusively dedicated to public intelligence and the general business of a newspaper’, NOTW advert, Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press, 1888, vol. 2, p. 1120.
Trollope and the Magazines, 2000
In May 1865, Trollope s The Belton Estate launched the Fortnightly Review. In the first part of t... more In May 1865, Trollope s The Belton Estate launched the Fortnightly Review. In the first part of this chapter, I explore the cultural formation of the Fortnightly and consider the nature of the magazine’s liberalism in relation to the network of male writers which defined it. I believe that, for all its radical policies, there is an absence of the female voice in its contents because of what might be termed its Positivist political stance. The Belton Estate (serialized between May 1865 and January 1866) was the second Trollope novel to launch a periodical, but rather than defining the magazine in the way Framley Parsonage seemed to do in the Cornhill, it sits oddly in the Fortnightly under its first editor, G.H. Lewes. The tensions which I think The Belton Estate generates as a bid for women readers are directly related to its context in a hybrid periodical — not quite a traditional review, not quite a popular monthly. In the second part of the chapter, I discuss the question of signature in the context of anxiety over creating what has been called a star system of criticism. Although star journalism had not yet been fully introduced in the mid-1860s, it can be argued that the rise of individual personalities within a burgeoning mass culture had already begun. The Fortnightly was part of the foundation for a middle-class culture which, as the century moved on, became hooked on personality and celebrity. The anonymity debate, then, can be examined not simply for its effect on honesty in writing but also for its contribution to a culture of celebrity.
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2021
Laurel Brake's work has always tended to look forward and to anticipate things to come. The publi... more Laurel Brake's work has always tended to look forward and to anticipate things to come. The publication of Subjugated Knowledges (1994), for example, with its interrogation of the porous boundaries between literature and journalism, between books and periodicals, asked questions beyond its apparent subject and went straight to the heart of how we think about 'English literature'. In so doing, the book challenged the discipline itself. Our methods of study and the material we chose to study in nineteenth-century literary studies greatly expanded. The confidence in seeking to push disciplinary boundaries is founded on a combination of two things: firstly, detailed and rigorous research into material culture, archives and the forms and formats of print; and secondly, an adept theoretical framework, both applied to the detailed research and arising out of it. If Subjugated Knowledges went to battle with one of the parent disciplines of periodical studies, Laurel's next book, Print in Transition (2001), took for granted that victory had been won. Laurel moved on conceptually and the very terms used to such strategic effect in her previous work were completely reconsidered:
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2020
The News of the World and the British Press, 1843–2011, 2016
Media History, 2018
This article focuses on the journalism of Oscar Wilde, and in particular a single review of a his... more This article focuses on the journalism of Oscar Wilde, and in particular a single review of a history of needlework, to explore the connections between British and Irish print media in the 1880s. By understanding the significance of the review, we can begin to see the overlapping networks of print in Ireland and Britain in the late-19th century. We also learn something about Wilde’s approach to writing about Ireland. While he may not have written directly about Ireland across his oeuvre, he does in this review demonstrate his interests in Irish cultural politics which were being discussed in Anglo-Irish print media at the time. It is through connections in print–the way Wilde’s review is part of broader, topical discourses about contemporary Ireland–that we come to understand Wilde’s subtle intervention in some of the most significant cultural and political questions of his day.
Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2019
Review of Koenraad Claes, The Late-Victorian Little Magazine (2018)
Choice Reviews Online, 2000
An academic directory and search engine.
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2015
The newspaper press directories are a rich resource for students and scholars of the nineteenth c... more The newspaper press directories are a rich resource for students and scholars of the nineteenth century, though they remain under-researched. This article seeks to raise awareness about the value of these annual volumes by focusing attention on one of the most prominent, Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press. I suggest that in Sell’s Dictionary we see the ways the press industry represented and constructed the complex media networks of which it was a part. Furthermore, Sell’s Dictionary helps us understand the press as a key feature in the media and communications network that was spreading globally at the end of the nineteenth century.
Trollope and the Magazines, 2000
Less than a month after finishing writing the final parts to The Small House at Allington, Trollo... more Less than a month after finishing writing the final parts to The Small House at Allington, Trollope began his next serial, Rachel Ray, to be published in the religious monthly Good Words beginning July 1863. Although Trollope completed the commissioned novel and the serialization was advertised, Rachel Ray was never serialized in the magazine, but published in two volumes by Chapman and Hall in October 1863. The editor of Good Words, a Scottish Queen’s Chaplain, Dr Norman MacLeod, refused Trollope s novel on the grounds that it would be offensive to his readers. Intensive criticism of Good Words and Trollope from the Evangelical extreme led to the rejection of Rachel Ray. This rejection provides not only an interesting case of serial and book publishing history, but also an example of the difficulty for a purportedly religious magazine such as Good Words to serialize a popular secular novelist such as Trollope.
Location and the Moving Image, 2011
A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel
Victorian Studies, 2020
If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination... more If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections.
Encounters in the Victorian Press, 2005
Remembering the 1890s In his recent collection of poems, The Yellow Book (1997), the Irish poet a... more Remembering the 1890s In his recent collection of poems, The Yellow Book (1997), the Irish poet and journalist Derek Mahon draws on the literary culture and decadent spirit of the 1890s to comment on the weariness of postmodern cosmopolitanism he perceives a century later. In the opening poem, 'Landscape', Mahon positions himself as a Baudelairean metropolitan observer, peering out from an attic and deciphering the cityscape: Chastely to write these eclogues I need to lie, like the astrologers, in an attic next the sky where, high among church spires, I can dream and hear their grave hymns wind-blown to my ivory tower. Chin in hand, up here in my apartment block, I can see workshops full of noise and talk, cranes and masts of the ocean-going city, vast cloud formations dreaming about eternity. 1 So begins a collection of poems that takes us to Dublin, Paris, London, New York, and elsewhere-weaving together the cultural histories of these cities with the present day, contrasting the exuberance of the late nineteenth century with the less satisfying, fragmented global urbanism of the present. In a later poem, 'Remembering the '90s', the speaker recalls the 1890s and passes judgment on the 1990s; he finds 'those desperate characters of the previous '90s/slaves of the Siren, consorts of the Sphinx/like Dowson, Johnson, Symons and Le Gallienne' (Mahon, 28) to be the heroes of modernity. In the speaker's recollection of literary life in the 1890s: L. Brake et al. (eds.
Trollope and the Magazines, 2000
Nineteenth-century periodical studies is a field of research which continues to be defined and re... more Nineteenth-century periodical studies is a field of research which continues to be defined and redefined. Students and scholars of history, literature, sciences, visual arts, and more recently demarcated fields such as media and cultural studies all have found in periodicals a rich archive of literature. Certainly, they have never been neglected as a source of information, and since the late nineteenth century and the beginnings of English studies, periodicals have been mined for what their fiction, non-fiction, advertisements, and illustrations reveal about Victorian society. Numerous books have been published on specific publishing houses such as Macmillan and specific periodicals such as the Saturday Review and the Fortnightly Review, and these works are important for their contribution to our understanding of press history and the development of the institutions around periodicals. Furthermore, books about individual editors and publishers are plentiful, which also add to our knowledge about the field of periodical studies, and such work continues to be significant and important. A great deal of archival work remains for literary historians and others; however, such studies do not represent all that can or should be studied in relation to periodical literature.
Propelled by new printing and dissemination technologies, a global network of print and electroni... more Propelled by new printing and dissemination technologies, a global network of print and electronic media and communications had enveloped much of the globe by the end of the nineteenth century. Part of this network was an explosion of serial print media and terminology categorizing such media in the press and on the literary marketplace. G.W.M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London serves as a case study on the unruliness of the serial city mystery genre, as well as the necessity of centering the serial in discourse on nineteenth-century popular media.
Trollope and the Magazines, 2000
One of the ways we can begin to appreciate the complexity of serial literature is to focus on the... more One of the ways we can begin to appreciate the complexity of serial literature is to focus on the relationship between the serial novel and the periodical. Such an approach poses its own set of questions: what are some of the ways we might read the fiction both as an integral part of the magazine and as only one element of the single magazine issue rubbing up against all of the other contributions? How do the articles and fiction in a magazine intersect with cultural debates outside the magazine? How does the magazine carve out its own identity — create its niche market — from the other literary magazines and texts continually in circulation? I assume that intertextuality is the most useful methodological approach to help us understand the intersections and overlappings which occur within and across magazines. This suggests that periodicals are essentially dialogic literary texts. Serialization, in which only a small part of a larger text is put into play alongside all sorts of different texts, provides the opportunity to see how debates and discourses within a periodical reverberate in the wider cultural world outside the magazine.
The News of the World and the British Press, 1843–2011, 2016
‘It stands first in point of circulation of all the journals exclusively dedicated to public inte... more ‘It stands first in point of circulation of all the journals exclusively dedicated to public intelligence and the general business of a newspaper’, NOTW advert, Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press, 1888, vol. 2, p. 1120.
Trollope and the Magazines, 2000
In May 1865, Trollope s The Belton Estate launched the Fortnightly Review. In the first part of t... more In May 1865, Trollope s The Belton Estate launched the Fortnightly Review. In the first part of this chapter, I explore the cultural formation of the Fortnightly and consider the nature of the magazine’s liberalism in relation to the network of male writers which defined it. I believe that, for all its radical policies, there is an absence of the female voice in its contents because of what might be termed its Positivist political stance. The Belton Estate (serialized between May 1865 and January 1866) was the second Trollope novel to launch a periodical, but rather than defining the magazine in the way Framley Parsonage seemed to do in the Cornhill, it sits oddly in the Fortnightly under its first editor, G.H. Lewes. The tensions which I think The Belton Estate generates as a bid for women readers are directly related to its context in a hybrid periodical — not quite a traditional review, not quite a popular monthly. In the second part of the chapter, I discuss the question of signature in the context of anxiety over creating what has been called a star system of criticism. Although star journalism had not yet been fully introduced in the mid-1860s, it can be argued that the rise of individual personalities within a burgeoning mass culture had already begun. The Fortnightly was part of the foundation for a middle-class culture which, as the century moved on, became hooked on personality and celebrity. The anonymity debate, then, can be examined not simply for its effect on honesty in writing but also for its contribution to a culture of celebrity.
Journal of Victorian Culture, 2021
Laurel Brake's work has always tended to look forward and to anticipate things to come. The publi... more Laurel Brake's work has always tended to look forward and to anticipate things to come. The publication of Subjugated Knowledges (1994), for example, with its interrogation of the porous boundaries between literature and journalism, between books and periodicals, asked questions beyond its apparent subject and went straight to the heart of how we think about 'English literature'. In so doing, the book challenged the discipline itself. Our methods of study and the material we chose to study in nineteenth-century literary studies greatly expanded. The confidence in seeking to push disciplinary boundaries is founded on a combination of two things: firstly, detailed and rigorous research into material culture, archives and the forms and formats of print; and secondly, an adept theoretical framework, both applied to the detailed research and arising out of it. If Subjugated Knowledges went to battle with one of the parent disciplines of periodical studies, Laurel's next book, Print in Transition (2001), took for granted that victory had been won. Laurel moved on conceptually and the very terms used to such strategic effect in her previous work were completely reconsidered:
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2020
The News of the World and the British Press, 1843–2011, 2016
Media History, 2018
This article focuses on the journalism of Oscar Wilde, and in particular a single review of a his... more This article focuses on the journalism of Oscar Wilde, and in particular a single review of a history of needlework, to explore the connections between British and Irish print media in the 1880s. By understanding the significance of the review, we can begin to see the overlapping networks of print in Ireland and Britain in the late-19th century. We also learn something about Wilde’s approach to writing about Ireland. While he may not have written directly about Ireland across his oeuvre, he does in this review demonstrate his interests in Irish cultural politics which were being discussed in Anglo-Irish print media at the time. It is through connections in print–the way Wilde’s review is part of broader, topical discourses about contemporary Ireland–that we come to understand Wilde’s subtle intervention in some of the most significant cultural and political questions of his day.
Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2019
Review of Koenraad Claes, The Late-Victorian Little Magazine (2018)
Choice Reviews Online, 2000
An academic directory and search engine.
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2015
The newspaper press directories are a rich resource for students and scholars of the nineteenth c... more The newspaper press directories are a rich resource for students and scholars of the nineteenth century, though they remain under-researched. This article seeks to raise awareness about the value of these annual volumes by focusing attention on one of the most prominent, Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press. I suggest that in Sell’s Dictionary we see the ways the press industry represented and constructed the complex media networks of which it was a part. Furthermore, Sell’s Dictionary helps us understand the press as a key feature in the media and communications network that was spreading globally at the end of the nineteenth century.
Trollope and the Magazines, 2000
Less than a month after finishing writing the final parts to The Small House at Allington, Trollo... more Less than a month after finishing writing the final parts to The Small House at Allington, Trollope began his next serial, Rachel Ray, to be published in the religious monthly Good Words beginning July 1863. Although Trollope completed the commissioned novel and the serialization was advertised, Rachel Ray was never serialized in the magazine, but published in two volumes by Chapman and Hall in October 1863. The editor of Good Words, a Scottish Queen’s Chaplain, Dr Norman MacLeod, refused Trollope s novel on the grounds that it would be offensive to his readers. Intensive criticism of Good Words and Trollope from the Evangelical extreme led to the rejection of Rachel Ray. This rejection provides not only an interesting case of serial and book publishing history, but also an example of the difficulty for a purportedly religious magazine such as Good Words to serialize a popular secular novelist such as Trollope.
Location and the Moving Image, 2011
A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel