In Victorian society the circulation of periodicals and newspapers is thought to have been larger and more influential than that of books. To investigate this premise, J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel commissioned eighteen bibliographic essays by some of the world's leaading scholars in the field of periodical research. The collection is a guide to the exploration of Victorian society including professions (law, medicine, architecture, the military, science); the arts (music, illustration, theatre, authorship and the book trade); occupations and commerce (transport, finance, trade,...
In Victorian society the circulation of periodicals and newspapers is thought to have been larger and more influential than that of books. To inves...
Provides a general introduction to the practice, followed by many Victorian novelists, of publishing their works in instalments in newspapers and magazines. The bulk of the volume contains charts for 192 novels. Each chart lists the dates of appearance of individual parts and their relation to the chapters of the final book.
Provides a general introduction to the practice, followed by many Victorian novelists, of publishing their works in instalments in newspapers and maga...
Explores disciplines that have evolved in the years since the publication of volume one. It discusses fields ranging from art history to feminist studies to religion through the study of the radical press, publisher's archives, periodicals of the 1890s, children's periodicals, and Scottish and Welsh periodicals. The appendices update the essays in the first volume.
Explores disciplines that have evolved in the years since the publication of volume one. It discusses fields ranging from art history to feminist stud...
