Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s - (The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain) (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>New perspectives on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain by experts in media, literary and cultural history</strong></p> <p>The period covered in this volume witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the greater availability of periodicals for an increasingly diverse audience of women readers. This was also a significant period in women's history, in which the 'Woman Question' dominated public debate, and writers and commentators from a range of perspectives engaged with ideas and ideals about womanhood ranging from the 'Angel in the House' to the New Woman. </p> <p>Essays in this collection gather together expertise from leading scholars as well as emerging new voices in order to produce sustained analysis of underexplored periodicals and authors and to reveal in new ways the dynamic and integral relationship between women's history and print culture in Victorian society. </p> <p><strong>Key Features</strong></p> <ul> <li>Presents 35 thematically organised, research-led essays on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain</li> <li>Features cutting-edge work by senior and early career scholars working across a range of specialist fields, including literary and periodical studies, material culture studies, cultural history, art history and women's history</li> <li>Extends recent scholarship on the Victorian press by revealing the diversity and complexity of women's interactions with periodical culture in Victorian Britain - as readers, authors, journalists, editors, engravers, illustrators, and correspondents</li> <li>Envisaged as an indispensable resource for students and specialists interested in new developments in periodical studies, the Victorian period, and women and cultural history</li></ul><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>New perspectives on women, periodicals and print culture in Victorian Britain by experts in media, literary and cultural history The period covered in this volume witnessed the proliferation of print culture and the greater availability of periodicals for an increasingly diverse audience of women readers. This was also a significant period in women's history, in which the 'Woman Question' dominated public debate, and writers and commentators from a range of perspectives engaged with ideas and ideals about womanhood ranging from the 'Angel in the House' to the New Woman. Essays in this collection gather together expertise from leading scholars as well as emerging new voices in order to produce sustained analysis of underexplored periodicals and authors and to reveal in new ways the dynamic and integral relationship between women's history and print culture in Victorian society. Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota. Clare Gill is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of St Andrews. Beth Rodgers is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>There is no doubt that this is a superbly exciting set of chapters from which every reader, but especially those interested in the period and its media, will draw inspiration and information.</p>--Marysa Demoor, Ghent University "Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 53, Number 1, Spring 2020"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Alexis Easley is Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of <i>First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830-70</i> (Ashgate, 2004) and <i>Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850-1914</i> (Delaware UP, 2011). She co-edited <i>The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers and Researching the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Case Studies</i> (Routledge, 2016 & 2017, both recipients of the Colby Prize), with Andrew King and John Morton. Her third essay collection, <i>Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s</i>, co-edited with Clare Gill and Beth Rodgers, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. Her current book project is titled <i>New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832-60</i> (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2021). This project was a 2019 recipient of the Linda H. Peterson Prize awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. <p>Clare Gill is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of <i>Olive Schreiner and the Politics of Print</i> (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press), General Editor of <i>The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Olive Schreiner</i> (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press) and volume editor of <i>Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland and Selected Journalism</i> (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press). <p>Beth Rodgers is a Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of <i>Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle: Daughters of Today</i> (Palgrave 2016) and co-editor of <i>Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s</i> (EUP 2019) and <i>Children's Literature on the Move: Nation, Translation, Migration</i> (Four Courts 2013).<p>
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