Histories for the Many: The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870

Doris Lechner

Published by transcript Verlag 2016

Histories for the Many

The Victorian Family Magazine and Popular Representations of the Past. The "Leisure Hour", 1852-1870

Doris Lechner
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Volume 17 in the series Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839437117

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About this book

Histories for the Many examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom and with which intentions was history used within this popular medium? How were class, gender, age, religion, and space debated? How were academic and popular approaches to the past linked to the materiality of the medium? The focus is set on the evangelical Leisure Hour with comparisons to the London Journal, Good Words and Cornhill. The study's approach to the serialisation of history in text and image combines periodical studies and book history with concepts from cultural studies, sociology as well as narratology.

Author / Editor information

Doris Lechner is research officer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Book History and Print Culture Network (D-A-CH).

Reviews

»The main value of [the] book is as an empirical case study, demonstrating the large quantity and complex nature of historical writing in popular Victorian magazines, well as the men and women who wrote such material. She presents a convincing case for the inclusion of popular family magazines in the historiography of the nineteenth century.«
Andrew Hobbs, H-Net, 31.01.2023

»An innovative study into an intriguing yet underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century journalism.«
Samuel Saunders, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3/2 (2018)

Besprochen in:
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 26.10.2017, Janet G. Casey
Victorian Periodicals Review, 50/4 (2017), Ruth M. McAdams
Victorian Studies, 60/3 (2019), Jennifer Phegley
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 58/4 (2019), Andrea Henderson

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
1. The Victorian Family Magazine and Historical Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Part I: The Leisure Hour in the Periodical Marketplace
2. The Leisure Hour and the Disputed Genre of the Family Magazine in the 1850s and 1860s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. History for the Working Man: The Leisure Hour and the London Journal, 1852 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
4. Images of History: The Leisure Hour, Good Words and the Cornhill Magazine, 1860 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Part II: Serialising History in the Leisure Hour
5. Serialising History into and out of the Leisure Hour: The Periodical and Book Transfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
6. Writing History for the Family Audience: Between Popular and Academic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
7. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Appendix
Appendix A: Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Appendix B: Excursus – Fictional Series on the Past and Their Book Counterparts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Appendix C: Contributors on the Past in the Leisure Hour (1852-1870) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 340
Keywords: Victorian Culture; Historical Culture; Popular History; Popular Culture; Media; Social History; 19th Century; England; Cultural History; British History; Memory Culture; History

eBook

Published: December 27, 2016
ISBN: 9783839437117