Abstract:This article examines nonprofessional book reviews in journals aimed at two traditional professional fields: medicine and the military. The review columns of the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Medical Press and Circular, United Service Journal, the Broad Arrow, and the United Service Gazette covered a surprisingly diverse range of subjects, including fiction, travel writing, history, and the arts. These reviews demonstrate the broad range of content within professional journals and the blurred boundaries between professional life and genteel culture in this period. Ultimately, book reviews played an instrumental role in the formation of professional identity and helped build imagined communities.
{"title":"Crafting the Professional Reader: Book Reviews in the Military and Medical Press","authors":"A. Moulds, Beth Gaskell","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines nonprofessional book reviews in journals aimed at two traditional professional fields: medicine and the military. The review columns of the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Medical Press and Circular, United Service Journal, the Broad Arrow, and the United Service Gazette covered a surprisingly diverse range of subjects, including fiction, travel writing, history, and the arts. These reviews demonstrate the broad range of content within professional journals and the blurred boundaries between professional life and genteel culture in this period. Ultimately, book reviews played an instrumental role in the formation of professional identity and helped build imagined communities.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"217 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41986346","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 article situates Walter Bagehot’s reviews in the history of modern knowledge provided by Alan Liu’s The Laws of Cool. I suggest this epistemic disposition emerges in the 1860s as book reviews transition from summary arbiters of taste into new knowledge. Bagehot’s essays are technically reviews, occasioned by biographies, editions, and scholarly books about authors. Yet Bagehot subordinates the books under review to promote his own thesis. Insofar as they deviate from generic nineteenth-century reviews, Bagehot’s essays reveal the emergence of “literary knowledge”—a form of knowledge abstracted from and about a literary text but not just a biographical or historical contextualization of it.
{"title":"“Cool” Reading: Bagehot, the Book Review, and the Fiction of Literary Knowledge","authors":"Jonathan Farina","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article situates Walter Bagehot’s reviews in the history of modern knowledge provided by Alan Liu’s The Laws of Cool. I suggest this epistemic disposition emerges in the 1860s as book reviews transition from summary arbiters of taste into new knowledge. Bagehot’s essays are technically reviews, occasioned by biographies, editions, and scholarly books about authors. Yet Bagehot subordinates the books under review to promote his own thesis. Insofar as they deviate from generic nineteenth-century reviews, Bagehot’s essays reveal the emergence of “literary knowledge”—a form of knowledge abstracted from and about a literary text but not just a biographical or historical contextualization of it.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"274 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48530302","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 article examines how reviews of written history worked to establish new historical protocols, technical vocabulary, and field knowledge in organs of higher journalism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing primarily on questions of generic differentiation and disciplinary formation, rather than on those of institutional or bureaucratic professionalisation, this article argues that book reviews allow us to examine the rhetoric of historical specialisation in its commercial context, thereby providing a unique insight into how and why certain historical values became normative as the nineteenth century progressed.
{"title":"“Literary dealers in the rococo of history”: Book Reviews and Historical Specialisation, 1820–50","authors":"Porscha Fermanis","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines how reviews of written history worked to establish new historical protocols, technical vocabulary, and field knowledge in organs of higher journalism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing primarily on questions of generic differentiation and disciplinary formation, rather than on those of institutional or bureaucratic professionalisation, this article argues that book reviews allow us to examine the rhetoric of historical specialisation in its commercial context, thereby providing a unique insight into how and why certain historical values became normative as the nineteenth century progressed.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"237 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41664591","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":"That's the Ticket for Soup! Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of \"Punch\" by David Crystal (review)","authors":"Tara Moore","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"147 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42834707","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:In Gordon Browne's illustrations for L. T. Meade's The Sorceress of the Strand, images of female victims and a male detective reflect cultural stereotypes of women as both beauty-obsessed consumers and beautiful objects of visual consumption. The illustrations mirror the consumeristic objectification behind the Strand's advertisements, which use images of women's bodies to market beauty products. Depictions of the detective's scrutinizing gaze, the villain's domestic intrusion, and victims' responses complicate the serial's implicit argument about women's status as passive consumers; they prompt women readers to resist objectification by turning their own critical gaze upon a culture of obsessive consumption.
{"title":"Image, Consumerism, and the New Woman: Gordon Browne's Illustrations for The Sorceress of the Strand","authors":"Amy E. Valine","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Gordon Browne's illustrations for L. T. Meade's The Sorceress of the Strand, images of female victims and a male detective reflect cultural stereotypes of women as both beauty-obsessed consumers and beautiful objects of visual consumption. The illustrations mirror the consumeristic objectification behind the Strand's advertisements, which use images of women's bodies to market beauty products. Depictions of the detective's scrutinizing gaze, the villain's domestic intrusion, and victims' responses complicate the serial's implicit argument about women's status as passive consumers; they prompt women readers to resist objectification by turning their own critical gaze upon a culture of obsessive consumption.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"72 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46235682","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 essay examines why the years between 1905 and 1915 generated a massive amount of commentary concerning Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Building on Don Richard Cox's influential bibliography of the novel's reception, I suggest that the Dickens Fellowship's journal, the Dickensian, actively cultivated a new audience of Dickens readers through its careful curation of Droodiana. By pursuing inclusive policies that attracted professionals, lay readers, and academics alike, the Dickensian helped resuscitate a novel that might otherwise have been forgotten. Such an approach might be mimicked today, I argue, to help generate canons of criticism for lost Victorian works.
摘要:本文探讨了为什么1905年至1915年间，人们对查尔斯·狄更斯的《埃德温·德鲁德之谜》产生了大量的评论。根据唐·理查德·考克斯(Don Richard Cox)颇具影响力的关于这部小说受欢迎程度的参考书目，我认为狄更斯协会的期刊《狄更斯学派》(Dickensian)通过对《德罗黛安娜》的精心整理，积极培养了一批新的狄更斯读者。通过推行包容性政策，吸引了专业人士、外行读者和学者，狄更斯帮助复兴了一部可能被遗忘的小说。我认为，这种方法今天可能会被模仿，以帮助为丢失的维多利亚时代作品创造批评的典范。
{"title":"Abetting \"Literary Sins\": The Dickensian and the Drood Phenomenon","authors":"Kari Daly","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines why the years between 1905 and 1915 generated a massive amount of commentary concerning Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Building on Don Richard Cox's influential bibliography of the novel's reception, I suggest that the Dickens Fellowship's journal, the Dickensian, actively cultivated a new audience of Dickens readers through its careful curation of Droodiana. By pursuing inclusive policies that attracted professionals, lay readers, and academics alike, the Dickensian helped resuscitate a novel that might otherwise have been forgotten. Such an approach might be mimicked today, I argue, to help generate canons of criticism for lost Victorian works.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"51 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44538876","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:In this occasional VPR feature, two authors provide brief reviews of each other's books and then discuss the issues, research methods, and periodicals they engage with in their work, as well as broader concerns within periodicals research. The format encourages scholars to think together about how their work overlaps and contributes to the field of periodicals studies. This installment focuses on two books addressing British-Indian periodical culture: Tanya Agathocleous's Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere and Priti Joshi's Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India.
{"title":"New Work on British-Indian Periodicals","authors":"Tanya Agathocleous, Priti Joshi","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this occasional VPR feature, two authors provide brief reviews of each other's books and then discuss the issues, research methods, and periodicals they engage with in their work, as well as broader concerns within periodicals research. The format encourages scholars to think together about how their work overlaps and contributes to the field of periodicals studies. This installment focuses on two books addressing British-Indian periodical culture: Tanya Agathocleous's Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere and Priti Joshi's Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"125 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43077933","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}
Elizabeth Howard, Geraldine Brassil, Kari Daly, Amy E. Valine, L. Howsam, Tanya Agathocleous, Priti Joshi, A. Chapman, Rebecca Nesvet, John D. Devereux, Jack M. Downs, Tara Moore
Abstract:This article explores the rise of diversion genres in the South Australian Adelaide Observer in the 1860s. Setting examples of the Australian periodical at play within a larger British context of competitive leisure, I argue that the Observer's Christmas pages present competitive periodical diversions as essential to observing the holiday. Further, the Observer's serial reprinting of Alice in Wonderland in its Christmas pages underscores the puzzle-like quality of Carroll's Alice such that Alice and the Christmas pages reify one another's status as competitive diversions.
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Abstract:Sarah Atkinson's significant friendship with Bessie Rayner Parkes becomes visible only by tracing it through letters, memoirs, and articles published in a range of nineteenth-century periodicals. These archival excavations reveal a complex and empowering transnational network forged across apparently conservative, often male-dominated, and mainly Catholic publications as well as publications edited and managed by women writers and philanthropists. Demonstrating the nineteenth-century periodical to be both an enabling space for professional women writers and an important historical archive, this article tracks intersections in Atkinson's and Parkes's social, philanthropic, literary, and ultimately feminist activism.
{"title":"Feminist Networks Connecting Dublin and London: Sarah Atkinson, Bessie Rayner Parkes, and the Power of the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press","authors":"Geraldine Brassil","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Sarah Atkinson's significant friendship with Bessie Rayner Parkes becomes visible only by tracing it through letters, memoirs, and articles published in a range of nineteenth-century periodicals. These archival excavations reveal a complex and empowering transnational network forged across apparently conservative, often male-dominated, and mainly Catholic publications as well as publications edited and managed by women writers and philanthropists. Demonstrating the nineteenth-century periodical to be both an enabling space for professional women writers and an important historical archive, this article tracks intersections in Atkinson's and Parkes's social, philanthropic, literary, and ultimately feminist activism.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":"55 1","pages":"27 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46106934","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:The Women's Gazette and Weekly News (1888–92), which documented the political work of the Women's Liberal Federation, was one of those periodicals that functioned in the construction of Victorian women's political identities. Eliza Orme (1848–1937) was the second and longest serving of its three editors. This article offers an account of the periodical's inauguration, development, and demise, along with a theoretical reflection on the concept of the periodical as organ. An appendix supplies publication details, including the existence of a previously unknown volume of the Women's Gazette in the Special Collections Library of the University of Oregon.
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