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Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Victorian Reading Experience

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Editors:
  1. Paul Raphael Rooney

    1. School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

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  2. Anna Gasperini

    1. Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

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  • Engage with new and established sub-fields in Victorian studies and book history
  • Spotlights overlooked topics such as the intersection between audience consumption of print objects and cultural experiences in other media
  • Contributes to the recent spatial turn in humanities research

Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Paul Raphael Rooney, Anna Gasperini
    Pages 1-13

  3. Reader-Help: How to Read Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help

    • Barbara Leckie
    Pages 15-31

  4. More than a ‘Book for Boys’? Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and the Victorian Girl Reader

    • Katie Garner
    Pages 33-52

  5. The Manuscript Magazines of the Wellpark Free Church Young Men’s Literary Society

    • Lauren Weiss
    Pages 53-73

  6. Black Victorians and Anti-Caste: Mapping the Geographies of ‘Missing’ Readers

    • Caroline Bressey
    Pages 75-92

  7. John Dicks’s Cheap Reprint Series, 1850s–1890s: Reading Advertisements

    • Anne Humpherys
    Pages 93-110

  8. Serialization and Story-Telling Illustrations: R.L. Stevenson Window-Shopping for Penny Dreadfuls

    • Marie Léger-St-Jean
    Pages 111-129

  9. Sensation and Song: Street Ballad Consumption in Nineteenth-Century England

    • Isabel Corfe
    Pages 131-145

  10. Reading Reynolds: The Mysteries of London as ‘Microscopic Survey’

    • Ruth Doherty
    Pages 147-163

  11. 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
    Pages 165-182

  12. Reading Theatre Writing: T.H. Lacy and the Sensation Drama

    • Kate Mattacks
    Pages 183-197

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 199-241
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About this book

This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands of enquiry run through the volume. First, these studies of historical readership during the Victorian period look to recover the motivations or desired returns that underpinned these audiences’ engagement with this reading matter. Second, contributors investigate how nineteenth-century reading and consumption of print was framed and/or shaped by contemporaneous engagement with content disseminated in other media like advertising, the stage, exhibitions, and oral culture.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Paul Raphael Rooney

  • Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

    Anna Gasperini

About the editors

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.

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