Adrian, Jack

Baylen, Joseph O

Brook, Michael

Caldwell, Richard

Gibson, Jack A

Hobbs, Andrew

Helena Ifill

Storch, R Adam

Taylor, Ronald G

Janet Tanke, Associate Director, Feminist Press

Sarah Nash

Erica Obey

Brett Kolles, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

Robin Barrow, English Dept, University of Tennessee

Alison McMonagle, PhD Candidate, George Washington University

Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell, eds. Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 (UK)/2005 (US). ISBN: 1403941777. £45.00/$75.00. 272 pages.

This volume contains essays selected, updated and expanded from papers presented at the 2000 RSVP London conference. This book is in the Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture series edited by Joseph Bristow. More information can be found at the Palgrave website at http://www.palgrave.com/.

Introduction: Encountering the Press. Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell

I: Early Victorian Press Encounters

Civic Publicness: The Creation of Queen Victoria's Royal Role 1837-1861. John Plunkett.

'Nothing but a Newspaper': The Contested Space of Serial Fiction in the 1840s Press. Graham Law.

Textual Encounters in Eliza Cook's Journal: Class, Gender, and Sexuality. Johanna M. Smith.

II: Encountering Gender and Class

Encountering Time: Memory and Tradition in the Radical Victorian Press. Ian Haywood.

Preaching to the Ladies: Florence Fenwick Miller and her Readers in the Illustrated London News. Barbara Onslow.

Knowing Hodge: The Third Reform Bill and the Victorian Periodical Press. Patricia O'Hara.

III: Urban Encounters

Encounters in the Westminster Review: Dialogues on Marriage and Divorce. Sheila Rosenberg.

Urban Encounters and Visual Play in the Yellow Book. Mark W. Turner.

The 'Atlas' and the Butterfly: James McNeill Whistler, Edmund Yates and the World. Patricia de Montfort.

IV: Political Encounters

The Dart and the Damning of the Sylvan Stream: Journalism and Political Culture in the Late-Victorian City. Aled Jones.

Islam, Women, and Imperial Administration: Encounters and Antagonisms between British and

Colonial Authors in the Victorian Press. Julie F. Codell.

'Government by Journalism' and the Silence of the Star: Victorian Encounters, 1885-90. Laurel Brake.

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