Print in Transition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Media History: the Serial and the Book

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. ’Trepidation of the Spheres’: Serials and Books in the Nineteenth Century

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 3-26

   3. Star Turn? Magazine, Part-issue, and Book Serialisation

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 27-51

   4. The Serialisation of Books: Macmillan’s English Men of Letters Series and the New Biography

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 52-66

   5. ‘Doing the Biz’: Book-trade and News-trade Periodicals in the 1890s

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 67-83

3. Journals and Gender

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. ‘Silly Novels’? Gender and the Westminster Review at Mid-century

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 87-109

   3. Gay Space: The Artist and Journal of Home Culture

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 110-144

   4. Gender and the New Journalism: the Yellow Book

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 145-170

   5. Marketing Notoriety: Advertising the Savoy

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 171-179

4. Print and Gender: the Publishing Career of Walter Pater, 1866–95

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Studies and the Magazines

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 183-196

   3. The Politics of Illustration: Ruskin, Pater and the Victorian Art Press

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 197-212

   4. After Studies: the Cancelled Book

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 213-224

   5. Appreciations: Aesthetics in the Affray

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 225-247

   6. The Profession of Letters: Pater’s Greek Studies and their Markets

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 248-267

   7. Pater, Symons and the Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Britain

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 268-282

   8. Afterword

      • Laurel Brake

      Pages 283-284

5. Back Matter

   Pages 285-341

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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.

• aesthetics
• Autorschaft
• culture
• gender
• novel

"Brake offers fascinating observations, not just about periodicals, but more broadly about periodicity and literature." - Jonathan Rose, Albion

• Birkbeck University of London, UK

  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).

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