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This essay examines Angela Carter's private journals and the British Library's 2000 pages of letters from her time in Japan to explore Carter's evolving thinking about the intersections between race, gender, power, and sexuality, from casual expressions of racist stereotypes in the early works through a more radical interrogation of those stereotypes, to a later, more intersectional approach to feminism and race. It explores her uncollected writings for men's magazines, such as Men Only and Club International, where she describes Japanese attitudes towards sexuality and the practice of irezumi, Japanese tattooing, which she analyzes as an index of a Japanese culture of "repression, narcissism, masochism and superstition" ("Irezumi" 96). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reading rooms, a totally unprecedented kind of institution in a country newly independent from Portuguese rule, started being set up in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro in the late 1820s. Catering mainly for the foreign communities, their fare consisted for the most part in imported printed material. Although it might sound like an exaggeration to claim that Rio was flooded with newspapers, books and periodicals, they became gradually and increasingly available to its inhabitants. The establishment of the British Subscription Library in 1826, the Portuguese Circulating Library in 1837, and the Biblioteca Fluminense in 1847 played a pivotal role in the circulation of British and French periodicals, allowing for the dissemination of news, ideas, key political, social and economic issues, as well as the diffusion of fiction and literary news. This essay reveals the presence and circulation of some of the foreign periodicals in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro libraries and reading rooms and traces their impact on the local Republic of Letters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Dandyism was a spreading phenomenon in the cities of the late nineteenth century. Its more bourgeois and literary aspects are well researched, but it also influenced a number of youth subcultures that were seldom expressed in written or published forms except when journals and newspapers derided them. One of these was the character of the masher which emerged as a distinctly British variation during the middle of the century and was established as a form of popular dandy type in the 1880s. It is typical for a phenomenon like this to remain unexpressed, but a curious short-lived periodical entitled ‘The Masher’ was published in a few issues in 1883 during the height of the masher culture’s popularity. Through a study of the issues of this journal and the contents of its articles, this article aims at contemplating masher culture as a specific male subculture and testing the notion that this journal was a manifestation of it. Considering aspects of gender, performativity, dress and cultures of frivolity, the discussion centres around the self-irony and affectedness of the masher role, and its relation to other forms of more respectable dandyism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the British periodical entitled "Critical Review," edited by Tobias Smollet, published between 1756 and 1845. It is compared to the similar "Monthly Review" which was created earlier, as both journals were created to serve a growing reading public by offering reviews of literature but differed in their editorial policies, with Smollet relied on a "set of gentlemen" as reviewers.

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Called Back (1883) by Hugh Conway (Frederick John Fargus) was one of the bestselling novels of the late nineteenth century and was first published as an issue of 'Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual'. This article is an exploration of the reasons driving the novel's commercial success. Firstly, I position Called Back and the Arrowsmith late-Victorian Christmas annual within the tradition of Victorian festive reading matter by approaching this question through material and periodical culture lenses. I also posit that the commercial fortunes of Called Back benefitted from the topical intertextual connections between its depiction of Siberia and related material circulating contemporaneously in the print media landscape. Secondly, I argue that Called Back was first and foremost a variant on the festive ghost story that employed both hauntings and gothic devices in its narrative, but that it was also a tale well placed to trade upon nostalgia for the golden age of sensation fiction. I additionally suggest that this hybrid quality can illuminate in large part the novel's post-Victorian obscurity. Finally, the article contends that Fargus' trio of mid-1880s novels (Called Back (1883), Dark Days (1884), and Slings and Arrows (1885)), written for the Arrowsmith annual title, represents the work of an author aiming to cultivate his status as a novelist associated with a distinct brand of festive reading matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is about educational research journals in general and the British Educational Research Journal in particular. In this paper, we discuss some of the aims of educational research journals and several the challenges facing them; we also identify various ways in which journals could consider doing things differently. Two issues are of particular significance. The first is about the accessibility of educational research in an era of rapid technological change and the rise of Open Access publication models. The second is to do with the mission of education journals in relation to long-standing and pervasive educational inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

James Hogg claims to have been instrumental in initiating both versions of William Blackwood's venture into magazine publishing in 1817. This essay examines Hogg's role in beginning the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and its successor, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and discusses the significance of his contributions to the Edinburgh Monthly and the early numbers of Blackwood's in terms of his influence on the direction of the magazine and the magazine's impact on him. Attention is given to key works in both versions, especially 'Tales and Anecdotes of the Pastoral Life' and 'Shakspeare Club of Alloa' in the Edinburgh Monthly and the 'Chaldee Manuscript' and 'Elegy' in Blackwood's. Also important for Hogg's relationship with Blackwood's were Hogg's submissions that Blackwood did not publish. This essay looks particularly at Hogg's failed effort to enter the attacks on the Cockney School and how he also became a victim of the social and intellectual disdain leveled against the Cockneys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The significance of Scott as a literary and cultural critic is little understood. Yet Scott was a lively participant in journal culture and contributed to it throughout his publishing career, writing for Blackwood's from its inception in 1817 until near the end of his life in 1829. Scott established himself as one of the finest critics and reviewers of his day, offering pertinent remarks on, among others, Byron, Mary Shelley, and Austen. This article explores Scott's contributions to Blackwood' s, his reasons for publishing in this often combative space, and the ways in which it offers Scott an opportunity to explore new aspects of his creativity. It pays attention to Scott's pieces on Scottish gypsies and to his iconic review of Frankenstein. It also examines his forays into the genre of 'tale', the ways in which they facilitate the development of the short story, and how they contribute to the development of Scott's career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the 'Irish Question' of the 1820s and 30s, Blackwood's Magazine developed a fearsome reputation for intransigence. Yet its early engagements with Ireland were far from unsympathetic, viewing its peasantry, in particular, as warm-hearted and likeable, though also overly passionate and prone to disorderly behaviour. Arguing for John Wilson's theorisation of 'national character' as a crucial determinant of Blackwood's representative position, this article analyses the manner in which Maga responded to Irish literature and society in a transperipheral manner, seeking to integrate Ireland more fully into the Union, and to accept its destiny as a partner in Britain's imperial enterprise. Ireland's failure, through its poets (such as Thomas Moore) and its people, to conform to this ideal, and its headstrong movement towards Catholic Emancipation under the leadership of Daniel O'Connell, would generate the choleric position that came to characterize the magazine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Blackwood's in its earliest numbers was a staunch admirer of Lord Byron. But when he published Beppo, it damned him in a June 1818 review as a hypocrite and a reveller, and thereafter the magazine lurched between celebrating him for his genius and castigating him for his perversion of it. Byron objected to the uneven treatment he received at the hands of the Blackwood's critics, but in 'Some Observations Upon an Article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine' he echoes their views on several contemporary poets, and seems to reconcile himself to the exuberant unpredictability of the magazine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article looks at the changing attitude of the Blackwood's leading writers John Wilson and John Gibson Lockhart to the so-called Cockney Prose writers, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Hunt, Lamb, and Ollier. It shows how a tendency to lump all the Cockneys together in October 1817 slowly developed into a more discriminating attitude in the course of the revamped magazine's first year. It also shows how the principles behind that discrimination lay in Lockhart's reading of Schlegel's lectures, and in the models of scholarship and genial reading that were contained therein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the available evidence of meetings between Goethe and the travel writer and landscape gardener Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871), including Pückler’s unpublished account of one of them, and charts their correspondence. Goethe thought Pückler’sBriefe eines Verstorbenendepicted an ideal art of living, and his laudatory review assisted the prince’s rise to literary fame, not least in Great Britain, where critical responses to the review shed light on contemporary British attitudes to Goethe.Briefe eines Verstorbenenalso inspired some scenes inFaust II, and to a greater extent than hitherto recognized. For his part, Pückler was a lifelong admirer of Goethe, and his approach to his work as a park designer was imbued with Goethean principles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It is unlikely that one would encounter the name of Robert Scotland Liddell (1885–1972) in the list of eminent foreign correspondents covering the First World War in Russia for British newspapers and journals, but he deserves to be much better known both for the quality of the reports and photographs he sent from the Russian front for publication in the magazineThe Sphereand for the trilogy of books that appeared in 1916–1917. Liddell began as an orderly attached to the Russian Red Cross in Poland in 1916 and after a period spent with Oliver Locker-Lampson’s British Armed Car Division on the Romanian front, he became an officer in a Russian divisional transport unit and narrowly escaped execution by mutinous troops after the October coup before escaping from Russia at the end of 1917. The article, while concentrating on Liddell’s reporting, experiences and exploits in Russia, attempts to survey his career from his early days as a Fleet Street journalist to the post-First World decades, when he wrote books of travel and novels, before sliding into obscurity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The nineteenth century was the century of Europe. Most of the earth's surface passed under the control of one or another of the European powers. Both the need for raw materials and new markets caused industrializing European powers such as Germany, Italy, France, and Britain to compete ruthlessly with one another for overseas territorial acquisitions. This rivalry between European countries and Russia played an important role in the development of the West's relationship with the world as a whole. Britain, specifically, as it traded and ruled in lands far from its shores, literally created a new world order, thereby causing the emergence of new understandings of some once wealthy empires with their own authentic cultural aspects. As a result, Western periodicals in general, and British periodicals in particular included the sketches, cartoons and drawings regarding the events occurring during this rivalry. In this respect, I will explore and discuss some selected visual materials focusing on the representation of the Ottoman Empire mostly published in well-known late nineteenth-century British periodicals such as Punch and Harper's Weekly, and show how they functioned in terms of their discursive strategies with regard to imperialist propaganda or criticism of their own empires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the finances of the Royal Society and its Philosophical Transactions, showing that in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries journal publishing was a drain on funds rather than a source of income. Even without any expectation of profit, the costs of producing Transactions nevertheless had to be covered, and the way in which this was done reflected the changing financial situation of the Society. An examination of the Society's financial accounts and minute books reveals the tensions between the Society's desire to promote the widespread communication of natural knowledge, and the ever-increasing cost of doing so, particularly by the late nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – Acknowledging the important role of the media in shaping a European public sphere, the purpose of this paper is to explore how the recent economic crisis is discursively construed in the context of the British media discourse. It investigates discursive constructions of the economic crisis in two political magazines of different ideological positioning by placing emphasis on the economic crisis in Greece, the “weak link” of the Eurozone. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on systemic functional linguistics which views language as social semiotic and conducts a transitivity analysis of a corpus consisting of 59 articles (a total of 61,820 words) from two weekly British political magazines, one of conservative and one of centre-left political position. The analysis is assisted by Wordsmith 6.0 concordance corpus tool. Findings – It is argued that the articles of the conservative magazine construe the crisis as primarily local and financial, discussing its effects on the British economy. On the other hand, the articles of the centre-left magazine view the crisis as a systemic one derived from and, at the same time, affecting European Union policies and stress its political and economic implications in all of Eurozone. Originality/value – The findings of the study contribute to the body of studies which investigate the role of language in the construction of the economic crisis and also adds to the on-going discussion regarding the development of a European public sphere as part of the wider European Project and the process of European integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

General-audience periodicals are an underused source for the study of transcultural perceptions and relations in the nineteenth century. With their pieces on travel and topography, multi-authored magazines created a multi-faceted image of the world. This kaleidoscopic mode directs our attention to the complexity of the period's popular imagination of foreign countries and transcultural relations. The article focuses on Germany as a case study and embarks on a cross-title analysis of some widely-read magazines for the Victorian family: The Leisure Hour, Household Words, All the Year Round and Chambers's Journal. It looks at the quarter-century between 1850 and 1875, i.e. a period following the 1848 revolution but preceding the period when Germany became fully 'Wilhelmine'. These years seem less decisive than the final quarter of the century for trans national relations, but they were a period of intense cultural perception when more and more Britons of the middle classes were able to visit Germany, and when Germany's situation as a country on its way to a nation state began to attract the interest of the Victorian common reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses Anglo-Irish author Hugh Kelly (1739-1777), focusing particularly on his early career as a journalist in London, England. He wrote for the periodicals "Gentleman's Journal" and "Gazetteer" in the 1760s, as well as served as managing editor of "The Public Ledger" in 1760, during the early years of the reign of King George III of Great Britain. References to his career are found in the personal papers of British Under Secretary of State Edward Weston, as well as those of pamphleteers John Hume and Dr John Campbell.

The main and most important subject of the article is Rafał Malczewski, who in the interwar period belonged to the elite of the Warsaw intelligentsia. He was successful as a painter, writer, and journalist, collaborating with the most prestigious magazines of the time. The article focuses on Malczewski's literary output in exile following World War II, after he had settled in Montreal in 1942. Relying primarily on Rafał Malczewski's correspondence with the poet Jan Lechoń and with the editor in chief of the London publication Wiadomości, the article shows the important role in Malczewski's life of literary work, which saved him from existential apathy and depression. He collaborated with Wiadomości, one of the most important Polish literary magazines published in exile after World War II. The correspondence between Malczewski's partner of many years, Zofia Mikucka-Malczewska, and Mieczysław Grydzewski, describes the events surrounding the creation of the special issue of Wiadomości devoted to the writer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 19th century, there were few periodicals dedicated to the inchoate discipline of alienism (now called ‘psychiatry’). Given the newness of alienism and the idiosyncratic structure of the British publishing industry at the time, for a private individual to start a new specialized journal was a major enterprise. Against all odds, Forbes Winslow managed to publish his journal from 1848 to 1860, and during this period the scholarly nature of his publication could not be matched by the Asylum Journal, the official publication of the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane. Under the title Psychological Medicine, Winslow offered a new view of alienism which he clearly conceived as a discipline broader than medicine. He strove to inform his readers about the conceptual and practical complexities that then (as now) beset and besiege the care of the mentally ill. He taught his readers that to understand and manage insanity, knowledge of philosophy and of the human sciences was as important as knowledge about the brain. In the 1850s this was a new message to impart. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses publication of new print magazines in Great Britain as of 2013, targeted at young people in their 30's, and comments on the advantages of hard copies over digital ones. The author focuses on issues of periodicals including "Delayed Gratification," "Boat," and "Port." Topics include magazines' themes, circulation figures, and the quality of the printing materials. Special attention is paid to the periodicals' design.

This paper reports on an exploratory study of one specific aspect of intercultural literacy: the activation of intercultural intertexts. Readers of intercultural intertexts fall into two general groups: knowing readers (who know the source text) and unknowing readers (who do not know the source text). This paper aims to explore Taiwanese unknowing students' responses to Western-derived allusive intertexts. Eight instances of intercultural intertexts were drawn systematically from the article titles of the British magazinespikedfor 16 Taiwanese college students to read, who had a required level of proficiency to skimspikedarticles. Qualitative data about their reactions to the intertexts were drawn for analysis from semi-structured one-on-one interviews. In addition, the eight magazine articles were taught to 82 Taiwanese unknowing students without a required level of proficiency. A brief questionnaire was then conducted to probe into their motivations to learn intercultural intertexts. The results show that the interviewees generally felt positively about the intertexts and that most of the interviewees and questionnaire respondents were motivated to learn such intertexts. The findings indicate that it is not only theoretically but also practically worthwhile to inquire further into unknowing readers' responses to and interest in learning intercultural intertexts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article is based on a detailed survey of three British popular science magazines published during the interwar years. It focuses on the authors who wrote for the magazines, using the information to analyze the ways in which scientists and popular writers contributed to the dissemination of information about science and technology. It shows how the different readerships toward which the magazines were directed (serious or more popular) determined the proportion of trained scientists who provided material for publication. The most serious magazine, Discovery, featured almost exclusively material written by professional scientists, while the most popular, Armchair Science, favored writers who were not professional scientists, but who probably had some technical knowledge. Another magazine, Conquest, tried to provide a balance between authoritative and popular articles; however, it survived for only a few years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An essay is presented which discusses the magazines of library staff in Great Britain during the first half of the 20th century. The role that library staff magazines played in librarians' professional advancement, organizational learning, labor and occupational solidarity and professional networking is discussed. An overview of the Sheffield Public Libraries Staff Association's magazine the "Wicket" is provided.

Between 1730 and 1733, the Grub-Street Journal was one of the most renowned and controversial weekly news-sheets produced and sold in London. This article traces the attempts made by the editors of the Journal to make sense of, and manipulate, the changing fashions related to the organization and consumption of information. The Grub-Street Journal linked critiques of new forms of information organization, such as printed volumes with prefaces and indexes, with wider societal changes taking place. This can be seen in the Journal's shifting relationships with its audiences and competing journals. As the weekly news-sheet became increasingly outmoded, the editors of the Journal could no longer successfully manipulate its position within the London coffee-house network, launching more direct attacks on the publication trade. The Journal offers a fascinating insight into the changing culture of information in the 1730s and highlights the way in which images connected to information are used to explore cultural change, throughout recorded history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented which discusses the history of the British scientific periodical "Nature" from 1869 to 1900. The founding of "Nature" by British astronomer and British government clerk J. Norman Lockyer is discussed. An overview of the periodical's role in inspiring the publication of scientific journals and in forming a scientific community in Great Britain during the Victorian Age is also discussed. The debate over the age of the Earth within "Nature" is presented.

The article reviews different international music periodicals, including the November/December 2011 and the January/February 2012 issues of the British periodical "Choir & Organ," the September 2011 issue of the German periodical "Das Orgelforum," and the December 2011 issue of the Italian publication "Associazione ticinese Organisti".

This article examines the opening years of Thomas Wakley's 1823 journal the Lancet, which rose to dominate the precarious early-nineteenth-century medical publishing market. The author argues that Wakley was an editor acutely aware of his journal's relationship to a wider nonmedical press and that this awareness may have even contributed to the Lancet's early success. In addition to, and often contiguous with, the journal's strongly worded critique and detailed medical content, Wakley sought to attract readers by importing entertaining formal components from lay periodicals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Harnessing international support for the struggle against apartheid was a major aspect of international solidarity work, and publicising the atrocities of apartheid and the role of the liberation movements in combating apartheid was therefore a campaign priority. The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) emphasised informing the British public about developments in South Africa as one of its core functions. In this article one aspect of this activity - namely the AAM's own publication, The Anti-Apartheid News - is analysed. A survey of the paper illustrates how the AAM used it to inform the British public about both apartheid and the African National Congress's (ANC) history and ideology. Through the newspaper the AAM was able to increase international solidarity with and support for the ANC. The article argues that the AAM therefore played a pivotal role in popularising the ANC and helping to establish its reputation internationally as the authentic representative of the people of South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]