num_pages: 276
description: Examining the important role played by the Victorian periodical in defining and refining gender roles during the second half of the nineteenth century, this study analyzes the periodical press in nineteenth-century culture. It considers issues of gender in the presses' development as a powerful political and social medium. The authors examine broad questions as they are explored in a range of periodicals, from literary and political reviews to comic magazines.
language: English
title: Gender and the Victorian Periodical
titlecomplete: Gender and the Victorian Periodical (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 41)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Cambridge University Press