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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
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Alexis Easley
1. 'Collect and Simplify': Serial Miscellaneity and Extraction in the Early Nineteenth Century, Mark Turner
2. William Hazlitt and Celebrity Culture: Periodical Portraits in an Age of Public Intimacy, Chris Haffenden
3. Periodical as Memorial: Remembering Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine, 1835, Elizabeth Howard
4. 'Mirth' and 'Fun': The Comic Annual and the New Graphic Humour of the 1830s, Brian Maidment
5. Fauna, Flora and Illustrated Verse in Mary Howitt's Environmental Children's Poetry, Linda K. Hughes
6. Literature, Media and the 'Advertising System', Richard Salmon
7. Keeping 'pace with the growing spirit of the times': The Women's Magazine in Transition, Jennie Batchelor
8. Beyond the Literary Annuals: Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Periodical Poetry, Caley Ehnes
9. A Familiar Transition: Dinah Mulock Craik's Early Career in Periodicals, 1841-5, Helena Goodwyn
10. Paratextual Navigation: Positions of Witnessing in The Anti-Slavery Reporter, Sofia Huggins
11. The Media System of Charitable Visiting, Sara L. Maurer
12. Invincible Brothers: The Pen and the Press in The Compositors' Chronicle, 1840-43, Françoise Baillet
Bibliography
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