Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101275
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print by : A. Gabriele

Download or read book Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print written by A. Gabriele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism is a comprehensive study of the whole run of the monthly periodical Belgravia under the direction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It traces the material history of the magazine, its production and global distribution while at the same time placing its history and content in the context of Victorian popular culture and Victorian discursive formations. Among the questions Reading Popular Culture in Victorian Print investigates are the status of authors in the marketplace, the innovative place Belgravia holds in the history of print culture, the rhetoric of sensationalism in fiction, journalism and pre-cinema, the representation of trade with India, and the use of urban space as a branding strategy. It makes the claim that the periodical is the sensation novel of the 1860s.

Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113758761X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain by : Paul Raphael Rooney

Download or read book Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Paul Raphael Rooney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns that underpinned these audiences’ engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, exhibitions, and oral culture.

Victorian Print Media

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191533653
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Victorian Print Media by : John Plunkett

Download or read book Victorian Print Media written by John Plunkett and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. Victorian Print Media: A Reader consists of edited extracts from nineteenth-century sources which discuss all aspects of the production and circulation of print media. The extracts are organised into themed sections such as authorship and journalism, reading spaces, and the influence of print.

Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543484
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)

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Book Synopsis Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City by : Peter Bailey

Download or read book Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City written by Peter Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bailey reconstructs the texture & meaning of popular pleasure in the Victorian entertainment industry and seeks to provide a study of the pub, music-hall, theatre and comic newspaper.

A Return to the Common Reader

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135196190X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis A Return to the Common Reader by : Adelene Buckland

Download or read book A Return to the Common Reader written by Adelene Buckland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Putting readers at the centre of literary culture, Altick anticipated-and helped produce-fifty years of scholarly inquiry into the ways and means by which the Victorians read. Now, A Return to the Common Reader asks what Altick's concept of the 'common reader' actually means in the wake of a half-century of research. Digging deep into unusual and eclectic archives and hitherto-overlooked sources, its authors give new understanding to the masses of newly literate readers who picked up books in the Victorian period. They find readers in prisons, in the barracks, and around the world, and they remind us of the power of those forgotten readers to find forbidden texts, shape new markets, and drive the production of new reading material across a century. Inspired and informed by Altick's seminal work, A Return to the Common Reader is a cutting-edge collection which dramatically reconfigures our understanding of the ordinary Victorian readers whose efforts and choices changed our literary culture forever.

Victorian Print Media

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Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199270376
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Victorian Print Media by : Andrew King

Download or read book Victorian Print Media written by Andrew King and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317084799
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture by : Andrew King

Download or read book Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture written by Andrew King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ouida,' the pseudonym of Louise Ramé (1839-1908), was one of the most productive, widely-circulated and adapted of Victorian popular novelists, with a readership that ranged from Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Ruskin to the nameless newspaper readers and subscribers to lending libraries. Examining the range and variety of Ouida’s literary output, which includes journalism as well as fiction, reveals her to be both a literary seismometer, sensitive to the enormous shifts in taste and publication practices of the second half of the nineteenth century, and a fierce protector of her independent vision. This collection offers a radically new view of Ouida, helping us thereby to rethink our perceptions of popular women writers in general, theatrical adaptation of their fiction, and their engagements with imperialism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The volume's usefulness to scholars is enhanced by new bibliographies of Ouida's fiction and journalism as well as of British stage adaptations of her work.

Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669031
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction by : Kevin A. Morrison

Download or read book Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction written by Kevin A. Morrison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.

Making Pictorial Print

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487506732
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis Making Pictorial Print by : Alison Hedley

Download or read book Making Pictorial Print written by Alison Hedley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.

Slow Print

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804784655
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Slow Print by : Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Download or read book Slow Print written by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist, anarchist and other radicals of this later period suspected that a mass public could not exist outside the capitalist system. In response, they purposely reduced the scale of print by appealing to a small, counter-cultural audience. "Slow print," like "slow food" today, actively resisted industrial production and the commercialization of new domains of life. Drawing on under-studied periodicals and archives, this book uncovers a largely forgotten literary-political context. It looks at the extensive debate within the radical press over how to situate radical values within an evolving media ecology, debates that engaged some of the most famous writers of the era (William Morris and George Bernard Shaw), a host of lesser-known figures (theosophical socialist and birth control reformer Annie Besant, gay rights pioneer Edward Carpenter, and proto-modernist editor Alfred Orage), and countless anonymous others.

Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351965832
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series by : Paul Raphael Rooney

Download or read book Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series written by Paul Raphael Rooney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The railway was one of the principal Victorian spaces of reading. This book spotlights one of the leading audience demographics in this late-Victorian market: the newly empowered readers of the expanding middle class. The transactions in which late-Victorian readers acquired the books read whilst travelling are reconstructed by exploring the leading determinants of consumers’ purchasing choices at the railway station bookstalls selling books intended for reading in this zone. This exploration concentrates on the impact of forces like the input of the staff running the bookstalls and the commercial environment in which consumers made their purchases. At the center of this study is a leading (and still relatively under-examined) genre of Victorian print culture circulating in this reading space― the series. Rooney examines three leading examples of late-Victorian series, which sought to satisfy railway passengers’ need for literary reading matter. Many of the period’s principal authors and literary genres featured in their lists. Each venture is representative of one of the three main pricing tiers of series publishing. Employing an eclectic methodological framework combining cultural studies and book history approaches with concepts from the new humanities, the reading experiences furnished by the light fiction of these series are reconstructed. This study reflects the recent growth in scholarship on historical readership, the expansion in the canon of Victorian popular literature, and the broader material turn in nineteenth-century studies.

Reading Women

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802089283
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Women by : Jennifer Phegley

Download or read book Reading Women written by Jennifer Phegley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provide a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston. Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation, not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of books and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms.

Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526141906
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt by : Eleanor Dobson

Download or read book Victorian literary culture and ancient Egypt written by Eleanor Dobson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection considers representations of ancient Egypt in the literature of the nineteenth-century. It addresses themes such as reanimated mummies, ancient Egyptian mythology and contemporary consumer culture across literary modes ranging from burlesque satire to historical novels, stage performances to Gothic fiction and popular culture to the highbrow. The book illuminates unknown sources of historical significance – including the first illustration of an ambulatory mummy – revising current understandings of the works of canonical writers and grounding its analysis firmly in a contemporary context. The contributors demonstrate the extensive range of cultural interest in ancient Egypt that flourished during Victoria’s reign. At the same time, they use ancient Egypt to interrogate ‘selfhood’ and ‘otherness’, notions of race, imperialism, religion, gender and sexuality.

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192598139
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation by : Clara Dawson

Download or read book Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation written by Clara Dawson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation argues that the dialectic and dynamic relationship between the periodical review and poetry creates a culture of evaluation which shapes Victorian poetic form. The mediation of poetry by the periodical review orients poets towards public readership and reception, heightening their self-consciousness about their audience and generating a poetics of publicness. Using methodologies associated with historical poetics and new formalism, the book examines the dialogues between poets and periodical reviews from the 1830s to the 1860s. It juxtaposes male and female poets and canonical and uncanonical texts. Challenging the critical binaries of fame and celebrity, the culture of evaluation posits a new way of reading Victorian poetry. It illuminates poets' engagement with the immediacy and inevitability of writing for the present and for the contemporary media through which poetry was read and disseminated. New patterns of reception were created by mass print culture and both poets and reviewers were preoccupied with reaching the newly constituted mass audience. The changes to the material forms of poetry (e.g. through the periodical or gift-book) and the subjection to the commercial imperatives of the literary marketplace encouraged bold experiment with verse. The book identifies three poetic strategies for articulating the preoccupation with a mass audience and the demands of mass media: voice, style and address. Chapters on voice, style, and address explore the development of poetic form in dialogue with periodical reviews.

The Emergence of Pre-Cinema

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137545925
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Pre-Cinema by : Alberto Gabriele

Download or read book The Emergence of Pre-Cinema written by Alberto Gabriele and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic spectacles in the literary imagination of the previous centuries. Its comparative angle ranges from the Medieval and Baroque period to the visual and stylistic experimentations of the Romantic age, in the prose of Anne Radcliffe, the experiments of Friedrich Schlegel, and in Wordsworth’s Prelude. The book examines the cultural traces of the transformation of perception and representation in art, architecture, literature, and print culture, providing an indispensable background to any discussion of nineteenth-century culture at large and its striving for a figurative model of realism. Understanding the origins of nineteenth-century mimesis through an unacknowledged genealogy of visual practices helps also to redefine novel theory and points to the centrality of the new definition of ‘historicism’ irradiating from Jena Romanticism for the structuring of modern cultural studies.

The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429018177
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature by : Dennis Denisoff

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature written by Dennis Denisoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.

The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131704231X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers by : Andrew King

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers written by Andrew King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies. The impact of digital media and archives on the field informs all discussions of the print archive. Contributors illustrate their arguments with examples and contextualize their topics within broader areas of study, while also reflecting on how the study of periodicals may evolve in the future. The Handbook will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century culture who are interested in issues of cultural formation, transformation, and transmission in a developing industrial and globalizing age, as well as those whose research focuses on the bibliographical and the micro case study. In addition to rendering a comprehensive review and critique of current research on nineteenth-century British periodicals, the Handbook suggests new avenues for research in the twenty-first century. "This volume's 30 chapters deal with practically every aspect of periodical research and with the specific topics and audiences the 19th-century periodical press addressed. It also covers matters such as digitization that did not exist or were in early development a generation ago. In addition to the essays, readers will find 50 illustrations, 54 pages of bibliography, and a chronology of the periodical press. This book gives seemingly endless insights into the ways periodicals and newspapers influenced and reflected 19th-century culture. It not only makes readers aware of problems involved in interpreting the history of the press but also offers suggestions for ways of untangling them and points the direction for future research. It will be a valuable resource for readers with interests in almost any aspect of 19th-century Britain. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - J. D. Vann, University of North Texas in CHOICE