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.

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

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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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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: MEDIA HISTORY: THE SERIAL AND THE BOOK 'Trepidation of the Spheres': Serials and Books in the Nineteenth Century Star Turn? Magazine, Part-issue, and Book Serialisation Macmillan's English Men of Letters Series and the New Biography 'Doing the Biz': Book-trade and News-trade Periodicals in the 1890s PART II: JOURNALS AND GENDER 'Silly Novels'? Gender and the Westminster Review at Mid Century 'Gay Space': The Artist and the Journal of Home Culture Gender and the New Journalism: The Yellow Book Marketing Notoriety: Advertising the Savoy PART III: PRINT AND GENDER: THE PUBLISHING CAREER OF WALTER PATER, 1866-1895 Studies and the Magazines The Politics of Illustration: Ruskin, Pater, and the Victorian Art Press After Studies : The Cancelled Book Appreciations : Aesthetics in the Affray The Profession of Letters: Pater's Greek Studies and the Market(s) Pater, Symons, and the Culture of the Fin de Siecle Endnotes Bibliography Index