Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain (eBook) von Paul Raphael Rooney

Introduction; Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini.- 1. Reader-Help: How to Read Samuel Smiless Self-Help; Barbara Leckie.- 2. More than a book for boys? Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte Darthur and the Victorian Girl Reader; Katie Garner.- 3. The Manuscript Magazines of the Wellpark Free Church Young Mens Literary Society"; Lauren Weiss.- 4. Black Victorians and Anti-Caste: Mapping the Geographies of Missing Readers; Caroline Bressey.- 5. John Dicks Cheap Reprints Series, 1850s-1890s: Reading Advertisements; Anne Humpherys.- 6. Serialization and Story-Telling Illustrations: R. L. Stevenson Window-Shopping for Penny Dreadfuls; Marie Léger-St-Jean.- 7. Sensation and Song: Street Ballad Consumption in Nineteenth-Century England; Isabel Corfe.- 8. Reading Reynolds: The Mysteries of London as microscopic survey; Ruth Doherty.- 9. Cross-media Cultural Consumption and Oscillating Reader Experiences of Late-Victorian Dramatizations of the Novel: The Case of Fergus Humes Madame Midas (1888); Paul Raphael Rooney.- 10. Reading Theatre Writing: T.H. Lacy and the Sensation Drama; Kate Mattacks.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

Paul Raphael Rooney is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests include the history of Victorian reading, series publishing, nineteenth-century periodicals, and popular literature. He has previously published in Victorian Periodicals Review, Womens Writing, and Publishing History.

Anna Gasperini is a final year PhD candidate at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she is completing a thesis on discourses of ethics, monstrosity, and medicine in the Victorian penny blood. At NUIG, she also teaches a seminar module on Victorian popular fiction. She is the current Membership Secretary of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association.