Research Catalog

Title

Periodicals of Queen Victoria's empire : an exploration / edited by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• VanArsdel, Rosemary T.
• Vann, J. Don (Jerry Don), 1938-

Description

x, 371 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Research in periodical literature has demonstrated conclusively that the nineteenth century in Britain was the age of the periodical. It also has shown that, in Victorian society, the circulation of periodicals and newspapers was both larger and more influential than that of books. The six essays in this volume investigate the extent to which this was equally true of Britain's colonies during the period up to 1900. In chapters devoted to periodical publishing in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Southern Africa, and the 'outposts' of the Empire (Ceylon, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore, Malta, and the West Indies), the contributors also consider the function and importance of periodicals in colonial life. They identify and describe all locally produced publications that appeared at weekly or longer intervals and that contained, for example, local news, poetry, fiction, criticism, commentary on the arts, news from home, shipping information and commodities reports. Each chapter presents an evaluation of the quantity and quality of guides available to periodical literature in each region, from basic bibliographies of periodicals, directories, and finding aids, to microfilm records and databases on the Internet.

Subject

• English periodicals > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Great Britain > History > Periodicals > 19th century
• Press > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Press > History > Great Britain > 19th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Australia / Elizabeth Webby -- 2. Canada / N. Merrill Distad and Linda M. Distad -- 3. India / Brahma Chaudhuri -- 4. New Zealand / J. Reginald Tye -- 5. Southern Africa / Brian D. Cheadle -- 6. Outposts of Empire / J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdel.

ISBN

0802008100

LCCN

^^^97103839^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library