Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; L.Brake& J.F.Codell PART I: EARLY VICTORIAN PRESS ENCOUNTERS Civic publicness: The creation of Queen Victoria's royal role 1837-1870; J.Plunkett 'Nothing but a newspaper': Serializing fiction in the press in the 1840s; G.Law Textual encounters of class, gender, and sexuality in Eliza Cook's Journal ; J.M.Smith PART II: ENCOUNTERING GENDER AND CLASS Encountering time: Memory and tradition in the radical Victorian press; I.Haywood Preaching to the ladies: Florence Fenwick-Miller and her readers in the Illustrated London News B.Onslow Knowing Hodge: The Third Reform Bill and the Victorian periodical press; P.O'Hara PART III: URBAN ENCOUNTERS Encounters in the Westminster Review : dialogues on marriage and divorce; S.Rosenberg Urban encounters and visual play in the Yellow Book ; M.W.Turner The 'Atlas' and the butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and The World ; P.de Montfort PART IV: POLITICAL ENCOUNTERS The Dart and the damning of the sylvan stream: journalism and political culture in the late Victorian city; A.Jones Islam, women, and imperial administration: Encounters and antagonisms between British and colonial authors in the Victorian press; J.F. Codell 'Government by journalism' and the silence of the Star : Victorian encounters, 1885 -1890; L.Brake Bibliography Index