Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-179
Author(s):  
Rosemary T. VanArsdel
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Periodicals

The History of ‘the Reading Public’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Collini
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Victorian Periodicals

This chapter argues that accounts of ‘the reading public’ are always fundamentally historical, usually involving stories of ‘growth’ or ‘decline’. It examines Q. D. Leavis’s Fiction and the Reading Public, which builds a relentlessly pessimistic critique of the debased standards of the present out of a highly selective account of literature and its publics since the Elizabethan period. It goes on to exhibit the complicated analysis of the role of previous publics in F. R. Leavis’s revisionist literary history, including his ambivalent admiration for the great Victorian periodicals. And it shows how Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy carries an almost buried interpretation of social change from the nineteenth century onwards, constantly contrasting the vibrant and healthy forms of entertainment built up in old working-class communities with the slick, commercialized reading matter introduced by post-1945 prosperity.

Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research, Volume 2 edited by J. Don Vann

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-99
Author(s):  
Patricia Thomas Srebrnik
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Periodicals

Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals (review)

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-240
Author(s):  
Heather McPherson
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Periodicals
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