Abstract:This essay examines the vogue for undercover exposés of transatlantic emigration during the late nineteenth century. Styling themselves “amateur emigrants,” investigators disguised their identities and adopted the methods of full participant observation in order to provide newspaper readers with a vicarious experience of the degradations of shipboard steerage travel. Recovery of this journalistic subgenre illuminates the true nature of its most famous exemplar, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Amateur Emigrant (1895), a literary classic that originated as an undercover investigation for the press.
{"title":"Emigration with a Vengeance: Undercover Investigative Journalism and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Amateur Emigrant","authors":"S. Donovan, M. Rubery","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2021.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2021.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the vogue for undercover exposés of transatlantic emigration during the late nineteenth century. Styling themselves “amateur emigrants,” investigators disguised their identities and adopted the methods of full participant observation in order to provide newspaper readers with a vicarious experience of the degradations of shipboard steerage travel. Recovery of this journalistic subgenre illuminates the true nature of its most famous exemplar, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Amateur Emigrant (1895), a literary classic that originated as an undercover investigation for the press.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"527 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47011617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Scholars have long acknowledged the potential of digital archives to transform periodical studies, but archives represent only a fraction of the research possibilities that multimodal tools offer for teaching, learning about, and researching nineteenth-century periodicals. This paper uses two case studies to show how multimodal digital projects, such as creating videos and infographics, can enhance learning and immerse novice researchers in nineteenth-century periodicals. The more that these digital opportunities are integrated through classroom pedagogies and assignments, the more researchers of all abilities can learn from and help to shape the next iterations of nineteenth-century periodicals research.
{"title":"Multimodal and Pedagogical Possibilities in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Research","authors":"C. Eaton","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2021.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2021.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholars have long acknowledged the potential of digital archives to transform periodical studies, but archives represent only a fraction of the research possibilities that multimodal tools offer for teaching, learning about, and researching nineteenth-century periodicals. This paper uses two case studies to show how multimodal digital projects, such as creating videos and infographics, can enhance learning and immerse novice researchers in nineteenth-century periodicals. The more that these digital opportunities are integrated through classroom pedagogies and assignments, the more researchers of all abilities can learn from and help to shape the next iterations of nineteenth-century periodicals research.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"625 - 645"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46733658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Sophia Jex-Blake led the campaign for female doctors that opened the medical profession to women in Britain. This essay announces and contextualizes the discovery of archival material that proves Jex-Blake secretly worked as a paid journalist for the daily newspaper the Scotsman during the campaign and that she later engaged in a practice of anonymous self-citation when she discussed the Scotsman articles in Medical Women: A Thesis and a History (1886). This previously unknown aspect of Jex-Blake’s prolific writing career contributes to our understanding of how Victorian women deployed conventions of anonymity within the periodical press to effect social change.
{"title":"The Authority of Anonymity: Sophia Jex-Blake’s Scotsman Leaders and the Politics of Self-Citation","authors":"Sarah J. Ghasedi","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2021.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2021.0045","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Sophia Jex-Blake led the campaign for female doctors that opened the medical profession to women in Britain. This essay announces and contextualizes the discovery of archival material that proves Jex-Blake secretly worked as a paid journalist for the daily newspaper the Scotsman during the campaign and that she later engaged in a practice of anonymous self-citation when she discussed the Scotsman articles in Medical Women: A Thesis and a History (1886). This previously unknown aspect of Jex-Blake’s prolific writing career contributes to our understanding of how Victorian women deployed conventions of anonymity within the periodical press to effect social change.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"583 - 603"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46157940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction by Samuel Saunders (review)","authors":"Troy J. Bassett","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2021.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2021.0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"658 - 660"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48321068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:What if Walter Houghton had had email and access to Google Books? This essay extends Derrida’s argument in Archive Fever about the shaping influence of technologies of communication and archivization to the field of Victorian periodicals bibliography, drawing on the history of The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals and the author’s experience collaborating on the Periodical Poetry Index. By defamiliarizing our understanding of the historical past, the impossible logic of the counterfactual helps us to see it, and our present, more clearly.
{"title":"Re: Search Technologies: A Counterfactual Exploration of The Wellesley Index","authors":"Natalie M. Houston","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What if Walter Houghton had had email and access to Google Books? This essay extends Derrida’s argument in Archive Fever about the shaping influence of technologies of communication and archivization to the field of Victorian periodicals bibliography, drawing on the history of The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals and the author’s experience collaborating on the Periodical Poetry Index. By defamiliarizing our understanding of the historical past, the impossible logic of the counterfactual helps us to see it, and our present, more clearly.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"304 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43301458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century: Eleven Case Studies from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine ed. by Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole (review)","authors":"Lindsy Lawrence","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"373 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44119038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper uses a recently rediscovered archive of French business correspondence belonging to Fleet Street publisher James Vizetelly to shine a new light on mid-Victorian London’s bohemian tradition. Investigating the commercial enterprises that underpinned the cultural exchange and intellectual connection between press networks in Paris and London at midcentury, the paper finds cross-Channel collaboration to be both the genesis and the defining characteristic of bohemianism. An analysis of three comic journals published in 1848—Puppet Show, the Man in the Moon, and Chat—provides examples of how these processes of collaboration manifested in print to animate bohemia’s comic journals.
{"title":"Collaboration in Bohemia: Cross-Channel Print Networks and Bohemian Comic Journalism","authors":"James Gatheral","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper uses a recently rediscovered archive of French business correspondence belonging to Fleet Street publisher James Vizetelly to shine a new light on mid-Victorian London’s bohemian tradition. Investigating the commercial enterprises that underpinned the cultural exchange and intellectual connection between press networks in Paris and London at midcentury, the paper finds cross-Channel collaboration to be both the genesis and the defining characteristic of bohemianism. An analysis of three comic journals published in 1848—Puppet Show, the Man in the Moon, and Chat—provides examples of how these processes of collaboration manifested in print to animate bohemia’s comic journals.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"236 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44480647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Waltzing through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Egil Bakka et al (review)","authors":"Cheryl A. Wilson","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"54 1","pages":"380 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45155265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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