Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Acknowledgements xix
5. Contributor Biographies xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: Press and Periodical Economics
8. 1. The Economics of Press and Periodical Production 35
9. PART II: Production and Distribution
10. 2. Production 65
11. 3. The Evolution of Image-Making Industries and the Mid- to Late Victorian Press 86
12. PART III: Readership and Distribution
13. 4. Readership and Distribution 127
14. PART IV: Identities and Communities
15. 5. Cultural Agents and Contexts: The Professionalisation of Journalism 153
16. PART V: Legal Frameworks
17. 6. Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century 197
18. PART VI: Themed Chapters
19. 7. The English-Language Press in Continental Europe 221
20. 8. Transnational Exchanges 240
21. 9. Literary and Review Journalism 294
22. 10. ‘One language is quite sufficient for the mass’: Metropolitan Journalism, the British State and the ‘Vernacular’ Periodical Press in Wales, 1840–1914 313
23. 11. The Scottish Gaelic Press 337
24. 12. The Irish-Language Press: ‘A tender plant at the best of times’? 357
25. 13. The Nineteenth-Century Denominational Press 377
26. 14. Comics, Cartoons and the Illustrated Press 401
27. 15. The Satirical Press 419
28. 16. The Medical Press and Its Public 438
29. 17. Science and the Press 457
30. 18. The Business Press 485
31. 19. The Press and Radical Expression: Structure and Dissemination 507
32. 20. The Political Press 526
33. 21. The Trade and Professional Press 558
34. 22. The Leisure and Hobby Press 596
35. 23. The Sporting Press 622
36. 24. The Children’s Press 655
37. 25. The Women’s Press 688
38. 26. The Provincial, Local and Regional Press 709
39. Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1800–1900 746
40. Bibliography 766
41. Index 829