The London Saturday Journal

The London Saturday Journal
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2024-08-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368734563

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

The London Journal, 1845-83

The London Journal, 1845-83
Author: Andrew King
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351886401

This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of Victorian Britain, the London Journal, inserting the story of this magazine into the wider context of the Victorian mass-market periodical. It draws on traditional modes of scholarship in history, art history, and literature as well as on developments in sociology, psychoanalysis, and cultural theory. However, the author ultimately relies on new and extensive primary research to ground the changing ways in which the reading public became consumers of literary commodities on a scale never before seen. Previous commentators have coded the mass market as somehow always 'feminine', and King offers a genealogy of how such a gender identity came about. Finally, King recontextualizes within the Victorian mass market three key nineteenth-century novels-Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, and Émile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise-and in so doing suggests radically new and unexpected meanings.

That devil's trick

That devil's trick
Author: William Hughes
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2015-11-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 152610198X

That devil’s trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular – rather than medical – appreciation of the subject. Drawing on the reports of mesmerists, hypnotists, quack doctors and serious physicians printed in popular newspapers from the early years of the nineteenth century to the Victorian fin de siècle, the book provides an insight into how continental mesmerism was first understood in Britain, how a number of distinctively British varieties of mesmerism developed, and how these were continually debated in medical, moral and legal terms. Highly relevant to the study of the many authors – Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Bram Stoker and Conan Doyle among them – whose fiction was informed by the imagery of mesmerism, That devil’s trick will be an essential resource for anybody with an interest in the popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, including literary scholars, medical historians and the general reader.