Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Series Preface xi
6. Notes on Contributors xii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1. ‘Collect and Simplify’: Serial Miscellaneity and Extraction in the Early Nineteenth Century 19
9. 2. William Hazlitt and Celebrity Culture: Periodical Portraits in an Age of Public Intimacy 40
10. 3. Periodical as Memorial: Remembering Felicia Hemans in The New Monthly Magazine, 1835 61
11. 4. ‘Mirth’ and ‘Fun’: The Comic Annual and the New Graphic Humour of the 1830s 80
12. 5. Fauna, Flora and Illustrated Verse in Mary Howitt’s Environmental Children’s Poetry 110
13. 6. Literature, Media and the ‘Advertising System’ 132
14. 7. Keeping ‘pace with the growing spirit of the times’: The Women’s Magazine in Transition 156
15. 8. Beyond the Literary Annuals: Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Periodical Poetry 176
16. 9. A Familiar Transition: Dinah Mulock Craik’s Early Career in Periodicals, 1841–45 196
17. 10. Paratextual Navigation: Positions of Witnessing in The Anti-Slavery Reporter 223
18. 11. The Media System of Charitable Visiting 244
19. 12. Invincible Brothers: The Pen and the Press in The Compositors’ Chronicle, 1840–43 265
20. Bibliography 286
21. Index 312