Edinburgh University Press
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s
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About this book
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
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Figures and Plates Figures
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Introduction: Women and the Birth of Periodical Culture
1 - Part I Learning for the Ladies
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Learning for the Ladies: Introduction
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1 Periodicals and the Problem of Women’s Learning
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2 Discontinuous Reading and Miscellaneous Instruction for British Ladies
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3 Constructing Women’s History in the LADY’S MUSEUM
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4 Vindications and Reflections: The LADY’S MAGAZINE during the Revolution Controversy (1789–1795)
67 - Part II The Poetics of Periodicals
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The Poetics of Periodicals: Introduction
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5 Dunton and Singer after the ATHENIAN MERCURY: Two Plots of Platonic Love
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6 Women’s Poetry in the Magazines
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7 ‘A lasting wreath of various hue’: Hannah Cowley, the Della Cruscan Affair, and the Medium of the Periodical Poem
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8 The LADY’S POETICAL MAGAZINE and the Fashioning of Women’s Literary Space
129 - Part III Periodicals Nationally and Internationally
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Periodicals Nationally and Internationally: Introduction
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9 Protesting the Exclusivity of the Public Sphere: Delarivier Manley’s EXAMINER
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10 ‘A moral paper! And how do you expect to get money by it?’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Journalism
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11 Eliza Haywood’s Periodicals in Wartime
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12 German Women’s Writing in British Magazines, 1760–1820
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13 Travel Writing and Mediation in the LADY’S MAGAZINE: Charting ‘the meridian of female reading’
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Print Media and Print Culture: Introduction
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14 ‘[L]et a girl read’: Periodicals and Women’s Literary Canon Formation
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15 Reviewing Women: Women Reviewers on Women Novelists
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16 Reviewing Femininity: Gender and Genre in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth- Century Periodical Press
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17 ‘Full of pretty stories’: Fiction in the LADY’S MAGAZINE (1770–1832)
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18 ‘This Lady is Descended from a Good Family’: Women and Biography in British Magazines, 1770–1798
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19 Suitable Reading Material: Fandom and Female Pleasure in Women’s Engagement with Romantic Periodicals
294 - Part V Theorising the Periodical in Text and Practice
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Theorising the Periodical in Text and Practice: Introduction
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20 The LADIES MERCURY
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21 John Dunton’s LADIES MERCURY and the Eighteenth-Century Female Subject
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22 Frances Brooke, Editor, and the Making of the OLD MAID (1755–1756)
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23 Eyes that Eagerly ‘Bear the Steady Ray of Reason’: Eidolon as Activist in Charlotte Lennox’s LADY’S MUSEUM
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24 ‘[T]o cherish FEMALE ingenuity, and to conduce to FEMALE improvement’: The Birth of the Woman’s Magazine
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25 The Woman behind the Man behind the WORLD: Mary Wells and the Feminisation of the Late Eighteenth-Century Newspaper
393 - Part VI Fashion, Theatre, and Celebrity
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Fashion, Theatre, and Celebrity: Introduction
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26 Advertising Women: Gender and the Vendor in the Print Culture of the Medical Marketplace, 1660–1830
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27 Theatrical, Periodical, Authorial: Frances Brooke’s OLD MAID (1755–1756)
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28 Fast Fashion: Style, Text, and Image in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Periodicals
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29 Magazine Miniatures: Portraits of Actresses, Princesses, and Queens in Late Eighteenth- Century Periodicals
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30 Fashioning Consumers: Ackermann’s REPOSITORY OF ARTS and the Cultivation of the Female Consumer
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Appendix
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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