Hirsch’s ‘Parentheses: Digital Humanities and the Place of Pedagogy’
Abstract (for entire volume) Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal...
View ArticleWorsnop’s ‘A Reevaluation of “the Problem of Surplus Women” in 19th-century...
Abstract A debate concerning the “surplus women” problem identified by the 1851 Census took place, between women and men, between radicals and conservatives. Both the debate, and the actuality, of...
View ArticleJackson’s ‘Women in 19th Century Irish Emigration’
Abstract Nineteenth century Ireland falls neatly into two distinct periods: the period preceding and the period following the great famine of 1845-1849. The emigration of women during and after the...
View ArticleWasson’s ‘The Whigs and the Press, 1800–50′
Review This article provides a strong counter argument to the general perception that Whig politicians failed to properly control or even utilise the rising power of British press in the first half of...
View ArticleCampbell, Ewen and Parker’s ‘The Shaping of Scottish Identities’
This is a pre-publication version of this review.For the final version, please see The Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 36:3, p.459-60. The second volume in the Guelph Series in Scottish...
View ArticleGardner’s ‘The Communications Broker and the Public Sphere’
Abstract Provided by Author Later eighteenth-century newspapers have been credited with shaping and reflecting readers’ politics and growing sense of regional and national identity. However, historians...
View ArticleHobbs’s ‘The Deleterious Dominance of The Times in Nineteenth-Century...
Abstract Provided by Author The Times was a mid-nineteenth-century newspaper phenomenon, defeating rival London newspapers through its skilful management, advanced technology, greater editorial...
View ArticleScott’s ‘Reciprocal Investments: John Galt, the Periodical Press, and the...
Abstract Provided by Author When John Galt resigned from the Canada Company in 1829, he returned to England penniless. This article explores how Fraser’s Town and Country Magazine enabled Galt to...
View ArticleMussell’s ‘Elemental Forms’
Abstract Provided by author This paper considers the way the nineteenth-century newspaper was oriented towards information. Despite their political differences, nineteenth-century newspapers were often...
View ArticleTattersdill’s ‘Periodicity, Time Travel, and the Emergence of Science...
Abstract Provided by Author The field of periodical studies has highlighted the value of studying novels in their original serialized incarnations. This understanding, however, is seldom applied to...
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