Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of illustrations vii
4. List of abbreviations viii
5. Notes on the contributors ix
6. Introduction xiii
7. Part One. THE CRITIC AS JOURNALIST
8. 1. Periodical literature and the articulate classes 3
9. 2. Readers fair and foul: John Ruskin and the periodical press 29
10. 3. 'Impetuous eagerness': the young Mill's radical journalism 59
11. 4. Exhibition and review: the periodical press and the Victorian art exhibition system 79
12. 5. Periodicals and the practice of literary criticism, 1855-64 109
13. Part Two. MANAGEMENT AND MONEY 143
14. 6. Problems of parentage: the North British Review and the Free Church of Scotland 145
15. 7. The financing of radical opinion: John Chapman and the Westminster Review 167
16. 8. Survival of the fittest? Sunderland newspapers 1n the nineteenth century 193
17. 9. Revolutions in thought: serial publication and the mass market for reading 225
18. Part Three. THE NEW READERSHIP
19. 10. Press and pressure group 1n modern Britain 261
20. 11. Workmen's advocates: ideology and class in a mid-Victorian labour newspaper system 297
21. 12. Early Victorian scandalous journalism: Renton Nicholson's The Town (1837-42) 317
22. 13. The trouble with Betsy: periodicals and the common reader in mid-nineteenth-century England 349
23. 14. The British Controversialist and Impartial Inquirer, 1850-1872: A Pearl from the Golden Stream 367
24. Index 393