Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain

by M. Turner

Overview

Trollope and the Magazines examines the serial publication of several of Trollope's novels in the context of the gendered discourses in a range of Victorian magazines - including Cornhill, Good Words, Saint Pauls , and the Fortnightly Review . It highlights the importance of the periodical press in the literary culture of Victorian Britain, and argues that readers today need to engage with the lively cultural debates in the magazines, in order better to appreciate the complexity of Trollope's popular fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312221768
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/28/1999
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Mark W. Turner is Lecturer in English at Roehampton Institute, London.

Table of Contents

Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Trollope in the 1990s Domestic Ideology and Gendered Space in Cornhill Magazine Uncovering Periodical Identities: Good Words and the Rejection of Rachel Ray Launching a Hybrid: The Belton Estate in the Fortnightly Review Transitions: Phineas Finn and Masculinity in Saint Pauls Magazine The Editor as Predator in Saint Pauls Magazine Conclusion: Towards a Cultural Critique of Victorian Periodicals Appendices Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'...underscores the excellence of Turner's focused, major contribution to periodical studies.' - Victorian Periodicals Review

'...a satisfying work of criticism that reads well and teaches much.' - Mary Saunders, Review

From the Publisher

The Victorian middle-class first encountered novelists such as Trollope, Dickens, and Thackeray in serialized rather than book form in 19th century magazines. Turner (English, Rochampton Institute, London) reads Trollope's fiction as it appeared in such influential periodicals as and Fortnightly Review/> in tandem with a critique of how they reflected cultural issues of the day, in particular the "Woman Question" and manliness. Contains several illustrations of magazine covers and advertisements. Appends a list of Trollop's works published or serialized while he was editor of the male-gendered (a role examined in a chapter entitled "The Editor as Predator"), and a vignette from (1890). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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