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Gender and the Victorian Periodical
Hilary Fraser
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Description for Gender and the Victorian Periodical
Hardback. Examines the role of the Victorian periodical in defining and refining ideas of gender. Series Editor(s): Beer, Gillian. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, 8 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 583.
Periodicals in the Victorian era portrayed and reinforced gender notions and ideals. Indeed, the Victorian periodical press was a critical cultural site for the representation of competing gender ideologies. This is a full-length book examining masculinities and femininities as defined and interrogated in these periodicals. It investigates readers, editors, and journalists; and it considers the power of the press at home, in the domestic space, in metropolitan centres and at the margins of empire. The work is based on archival research into a wide range of publications from the 1830s to the fin de siècle; from enduring intellectual heavyweight quarterlies ... Read more
Periodicals in the Victorian era portrayed and reinforced gender notions and ideals. Indeed, the Victorian periodical press was a critical cultural site for the representation of competing gender ideologies. This is a full-length book examining masculinities and femininities as defined and interrogated in these periodicals. It investigates readers, editors, and journalists; and it considers the power of the press at home, in the domestic space, in metropolitan centres and at the margins of empire. The work is based on archival research into a wide range of publications from the 1830s to the fin de siècle; from enduring intellectual heavyweight quarterlies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521830720
SKU
V9780521830720
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About Hilary Fraser
Hilary Fraser is Geoffrey Tillotson chair in Nineteenth-century studies in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature (Cambridge, 1986), The Victorians and Renaissance Italy (1992) and English Prose of the 19th Century (with Daniel Brown, 1997). Judith Johnston teaches in ... Read more
Reviews for Gender and the Victorian Periodical
'This is a sensitive study that engages with the most challenging aspects of popular writing … fascinating chapters …' The Times Literary Supplement '… wide ranging and important … a seamless text.' George Eliot Review