Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s : The Long Eighteenth Century (The Edinburgh History of Women's Periodical Culture in Britain)

Batchelor, Jennie (EDT)/ Powell, Manushag N. (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2025/02発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 520 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399546812
• DDC分類 052.08209033

Full Description

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth century
This innovative volume presents for the first time collective expertise on women's magazines and periodicals of the long eighteenth century. While this period witnessed the birth of modern periodical culture and its ability to shape aspects of society from the popular to the political, most studies have traditionally obscured the very active role women's voices and women readers played in shaping the periodicals that in turn shaped Britain. The 30 essays here demonstrate the importance of periodicals to women, the importance of women to periodicals, and, crucially, they correct the destructive misconception that the more canonized periodicals and popular magazines were enemy or discontinuous forms. This collection shows how both periodicals and women drove debates on politics, education, theatre, celebrity, social practice, popular reading and everyday life itself.
Divided into 6 thematic parts, the book uses innovative methodologies for historical periodical studies, thereby mapping new directions in eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, women's writing as well as media and cultural history. While our period witnessed the birth of modern periodical culture, most studies have obscured the active role women's voices and women readers played in shaping the periodicals that in turn shaped Britain.
Key Features
Presents the first major study of the key role women played as authors, editors, and readers of periodicals and magazines in the long eighteenth centuryFeatures cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research by senior and early career specialists in the fields of periodical studies, material culture studies, theatre history, and cultural historyIn its exposition of innovative methodologies for historical periodical studies, the book maps new directions in eighteenth-century and Romantic studies, women's writing, and media and cultural historyMoves British women's print media to the centre of long eighteenth-century print culture

Contents

Introduction: Women and the Birth of Periodical Culture

Jennie Batchelor and Nush Powell

Section 1: Learning for the Ladies

Introduction

Periodicals and the Problem of Women's Learning

James Robert Wood

Discontinuous Reading and Miscellaneous Instruction for British Ladies

Eve Tavor Bannet

Constructing Women's History in the Lady's Museum

Anna K. Sagal

Vindications and Reflections: The Lady's Magazine during the Revolution Controversy (1789—95)

Koenraad Claes

Section 2: The Poetics of Periodicals

Introduction

Dunton and Singer after the Athenian Mercury: Two Plots of Platonic Love

Dustin Stewart

Women's Poetry in the Magazines

Jennifer Batt

'A lasting wreath of various hue': Hannah Cowley, the Della Cruscan Affair, and the Medium of the Periodical Poem

Tanya Marie Caldwell

The Lady's Poetical Magazine and the Fashioning of Women's Literary Space

Octavia Cox

Section 3: Periodicals Nationally and Internationally

Introduction

Protesting the Exclusivity of the Public Sphere: Delarivier Manley's Examiner

Rachel Carnell

'A moral paper! And how do you expect to get money by it?': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Journalism

Isobel Grundy

Eliza Haywood's Periodicals in Wartime

Catherine Ingrassia

German Women's Writing in British Magazines, 1760-1820

Alessa Johns

Travel Writing and Mediation in the Lady's Magazine: Charting 'the meridian of female reading'

JoEllen Delucia

Section 4: Print Media and Print Culture

Introduction

'[L]et a girl read': Periodicals and Women's Literary Canon Formation

Rachel Scarborough King

Reviewing Women: Women Reviewers on Women Novelists

Megan Peiser

Reviewing Femininity: Gender and Genre in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press

Pam Perkins

'Full of pretty stories': Fiction in the Lady's Magazine (1770-1832)

Jenny DiPlacidi

18) 'This Lady is Descended from a Good Family': Women and Biography in British

Magazines, 1770-1798

Hannah Hudson

19) Suitable Reading Material: Fandom and Female Pleasure in Women's Engagement with

Romantic Periodicals

Evan Hayles Gledshill



Section 5: Theorising the Periodical in Text and Practice

Introduction

20) The Ladies' Mercury (1693)

Nicola Parsons

21) John Dunton's Ladies Mercury and the Eighteenth-Century Female Subject

Slaney Chadwick Ross

22) Frances Brooke, Editor, and the Making of The Old Maid (1755-6)

Kathryn R. King

23) Eyes that Eagerly 'Bear the Steady Ray of Reason': Eidolon as Activist in Charlotte

Lennox's Lady's Museum

Susan Carlile

24) '[T]o cherish Female ingenuity and to conduce to Female improvement': The Birth of the

Woman's Magazine

Jennie Batchelor

25) The Woman behind the Man behind the World: Mary Wells and the Feminisation of the Late

Eighteenth-Century Newspaper

Claire Knowles

Section 6: Fashion, Theatre, and Celebrity

Introduction

26) Advertising Women: Gender and the Vendor in the Print Culture of the Medical

Marketplace, 1660 to 1830

Barbara Benedict

27) Theatrical, Periodical, Authorial: Frances Brooke's Old Maid

Nush Powell

28) Fast Fashion: Style, Text, and Image in Late-Eighteenth Century Women's Periodicals

Chloe Wigston Smith

29) Magazine Miniatures: Portraits of Actresses, Proncesses, and Queens in Late Eighteenth-

Century Periodicals

Laura Engel

30) Fashioning Consumers: Ackerman's Repository of Arts and the Cultivation of the

Female Consumer

Serena Dyer

Appendix