Brake Subjugated Knowledges

Journalism, Gender and Literature, in the Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-1-349-23322-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten, eBook

Examining the relation of print and culture in the 19th century, this book scrutinizes the cultural politics and production of Victorian magazines. A high degree of interdependence among literature, history and journalism is alleged, and ways in which space is designated male or female is explored.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brake, Laurel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Literature and journalism: criticism and the Victorian periodical press; from critic to literary critic - the case of the "Academy", 1869; theories of formation - the "Nineteenth Century"; the discourses of journalism; the old journalism and the new; "Harper's New Monthly Magazine" - American censorship, European decadence and the periodicals market in the 1890s. Part 2 Gendered space: Oscar Wilde and the "Woman's World"; "The Savoy" - 1896, crisis in gender?. Part 3 Biography and the construction of authorship: the "DNB" and the "DNB" "Walter Pater"; Judas and the widow.

Über Autor(innen)

LAUREL BRAKE is Reader in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck College, She is the author of Subjugated Knowledges (1994) and Walter Pater (1994), and has co-edited Investigating Victorian Journalism (1990), Pater in the 1990s (1991) and The Endings of Epochs (1995). She has published articles and reviews on nineteenth-century literature, publishing and cultural theory.