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Print in Transition
Laurel Brake
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Description for Print in Transition
Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book examines the outbreak of print in late Victorian Britain. It joins categories that are normally separated: literature/popular culture, books/magazines, publishers/newsagents, and media studies/media history. The approach is through material culture, archival material that is theorised and gendered. Chapters focus on authorship, production, and gender in relation to Dickens, Pater, Ruskin, Eliot, Symons, and James, and serials such as Master Humphrey's Clock , the Westminster Review, Artist and Journal of Home Culture, Publishers' Circular, Yellow Book and Savoy.
This book examines the outbreak of print in late Victorian Britain. It joins categories that are normally separated: literature/popular culture, books/magazines, publishers/newsagents, and media studies/media history. The approach is through material culture, archival material that is theorised and gendered. Chapters focus on authorship, production, and gender in relation to Dickens, Pater, Ruskin, Eliot, Symons, and James, and serials such as Master Humphrey's Clock , the Westminster Review, Artist and Journal of Home Culture, Publishers' Circular, Yellow Book and Savoy.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
341
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349415137
SKU
V9781349415137
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Ref
99-15
About Laurel Brake
LAUREL BRAKE is Reader in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published numerous articles on aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture, gender, and the press. Her books include Subjugated Knowledges (1994), and Walter Pater (1994).
Reviews for Print in Transition
"Brake offers fascinating observations, not just about periodicals, but more broadly about periodicity and literature." - Jonathan Rose, Albion