Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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, Women’s 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.

Introduction; Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini.- 1. “Reader-Help: How to Read Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help”; Barbara Leckie.- 2. “More than a ‘book for boys’? Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and the Victorian Girl Reader”; Katie Garner.- 3. “‘The Manuscript Magazines of the Wellpark Free Church Young Men’s 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 Hume’s Madame Midas (1888)”; Paul Raphael Rooney.- 10. “Reading Theatre Writing: T.H. Lacy and the Sensation Drama”; Kate Mattacks.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-