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Encounters In The Victorian Press

Name: Encounters In The Victorian Press
Author: Laurel Brake
ISBN: 9781403941770

by Laurel Brake, Julie F. Codell

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Overview

Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press focuses on the unique characteristic of the Victorian periodical press--its development of encounters between and among readers, editors, and authors. Encounters promoted dialogue among diverse publics, differing by class, gender, professional and political interests, and ethnicity. Through encounters, the press emerged to become a central public space for debates about society, politics, culture, public order, and foreign and imperial affairs. This book captures the richness of these interactions and a variety of voices and opinions.

Synopsis

Using the term "encounter" to denote any debate or dialogue by journalists, readers, and editors responding to each others writing, Brake (literature and print culture, U. of London, UK) and Codell (art history and English, Arizona State U., US) present 12 papers in which scholars explore a range of topics suggested by exchanges found in such publications as Eliza Cook's Journal, the Illustrated London News, the Westminster Review, and the Yellow Book. These encounters are mined for what they reveal about class, gender, and political relations and identities in Victorian England. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About the Author, Laurel Brake

Laurel Brake is Reader in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where she lectures in English, specializing in Victorian Studies. Her research interests include 19th-century press, gender and culture, and Walter Pater. She has published widely on these topics, including Print in Transition (Palgrave, 2001), Subjugated Knowledges (Macmillan, 1994), and Walter Pater (1994), co-edited collections, with Ian Small Pater in the 1990s (1991), and, most recently, wrote "On Print Culture: the State We're In," Journal of Victorian Culture 6 (2001). She is currently at work on a biography of Pater called Ink Work.

Julie F. Codell is Professor of Art History and English at Arizona State University, USA. Her numerous articles and reviews on Victorian culture and on India under the Raj have appeared in many scholarly journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias. She wrote The Victorian Artist (2003), edited Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press (2003), and co-edited Orientalism Transposed (1998). She edited a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review on the nineteenth-century press in India (2004). She is currently writing a book on the Delhi coronation durbars, 1877-1911, for which she received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the Huntington Library and Museum.