British writers, popular literature and new media innovation, 1820-45 / edited by Alexis Easley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Easley, Alexis, 1963- editor.

Series:

Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures.

Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Mass media.

English literature--19th century--History and cricitism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century sparked a period of creative innovation in the popular press. This collection focuses on the early decades of the nineteenth century as a key period of innovation in the popular press. Steam printing, popular education campaigns, and new technologies of illustration led to new trends in book and periodical production.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1. ‘Collect and Simplify’: Serial Miscellaneity and Extraction in the Early Nineteenth Century

2. William Hazlitt and Celebrity Culture: Periodical Portraits in an Age of Public Intimacy

3. Periodical as Memorial: Remembering Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine, 1835

4. ‘Mirth’ and ‘Fun’: The Comic Annual and the New Graphic Humour of the 1830s

5. Fauna, Flora and Illustrated Verse in Mary Howitt’s Environmental Children’s Poetry

6. Literature, Media and the ‘Advertising System’

7. Keeping ‘pace with the growing spirit of the times’: The Women’s Magazine in Transition

8. Beyond the Literary Annuals: Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Periodical Poetry

9. A Familiar Transition: Dinah Mulock Craik’s Early Career in Periodicals, 1841–45

10. Paratextual Navigation: Positions of Witnessing in The Anti-Slavery Reporter

11. The Media System of Charitable Visiting

12. Invincible Brothers: The Pen and the Press in The Compositors’ Chronicle, 1840–43

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 17, 2026).

ISBN:

1-3995-1402-4

OCLC:

1435579741