Print in transition, 1850-1910

"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."

"Challenging the premise that the book is the unrivalled print format of the period, it draws attention to the ubiquity of serials and the serialisation of books. It explores the pervasive gendering of the press, including Eliot on lady novelists, gay discourse in the Artist, misogyny in the Yellow Book, and the heterosexuality of the Savoy. It contains a chapter on the press and the Cleveland Street affair, and concludes with a study of Walter Pater's publishing career."--Jacket.