Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century

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Title: Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s : The Long Eighteenth Century

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

Contributor: Batchelor, Jennie [VerfasserIn]; Bannet, Eve Tavor [MitwirkendeR]; Batchelor, Jennie [MitwirkendeR]; Batt, Jennifer [MitwirkendeR]; Benedict, Barbara M [MitwirkendeR]; Caldwell, Tanya M. [MitwirkendeR]; Carlile, Susan [MitwirkendeR]; Carnell, Rachel [MitwirkendeR]; Chadwick Ross, Slaney [MitwirkendeR]; Claes, Koenraad [MitwirkendeR]; Cox, Octavia [MitwirkendeR]; DeLucia, JoEllen [MitwirkendeR]; DiPlacidi, Jenny [MitwirkendeR]; Doherty Hudson, Hannah [MitwirkendeR]; Dyer, Serena [MitwirkendeR]; Engel, Laura [MitwirkendeR]; Grundy, Isobel [MitwirkendeR]; Hayles Gledhill, Evan [MitwirkendeR]; Ingrassia, Catherine [MitwirkendeR]; Johns, Alessa [MitwirkendeR]; King, Kathryn R [MitwirkendeR]; Knowles, Claire [MitwirkendeR]; Parsons, Nicola [MitwirkendeR]; Peiser, Megan [MitwirkendeR]; Perkins, Pam [MitwirkendeR]; Powell, Manushag N. [VerfasserIn]; Powell, Manushag N. [MitwirkendeR]; Sagal, Anna K. [MitwirkendeR]; Scarborough King, Rachael [MitwirkendeR]; Stewart, Dustin D. [MitwirkendeR]; Wigston Smith, Chloe [MitwirkendeR]; Wood, James Robert [MitwirkendeR]

imprint: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (528 p.); 16 B/W illustrations 8 colour illustrations

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474419666

ISBN: 9781474419666

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Keywords: Women's periodicals, English History 18th century ; Literary Studies ; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General

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Footnote: In English

Description: Provides new perspectives on women’s print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis 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 FeaturesPresents 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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