Gender and the Victorian Periodical

• Author(s): Hilary Fraser, Judith Johnston, Stephanie Green,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 255
• ISBN_10: 0521830729
  ISBN_13: 9780521830720
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901) , Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Reference / General , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Media Studies ,

Description:... Gender and the Victorian Periodical examines the important part played by the Victorian periodical in defining and refining the ideas of gender and gender roles during the second half of the nineteenth century. It locates the periodical press in nineteenth-century culture, and consider issues of gender in the development of the press as a powerful political and social medium. The study examines broad questions as they are explored in a range of different kinds of periodicals, from journalism to comic magazines.