Science in the nineteenth-century periodical : reading the magazine of nature

Publication Data

• Title Science in the nineteenth-century periodical : reading the magazine of nature
• Contributor G. N. Cantor
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2004
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

Introduction / Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, and Jonathan R. Topham
The Mirror of literature, Amusement and instruction, and cheap miscellanies in early nineteenth-century Britain ; The Wesleyan-Methodist magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham
Punch and comic journalism in mid-Victorian Britain / Richard Noakes
The Cornhill magazine and shilling monthlies in mid-Victorian Britain / Gowan Dawson
The Boy's own paper and late-Victorian juvenile magazines / Richard Noakes
The Review of reviews and the new journalism in late-Victorian Britain / Gowan Dawson
Tickling babies: gender, authority, and 'baby science' / Sally Shuttleworth
Scientific biography in the periodical press / Geoffrey Cantor
Profit and prophecy: electricity in the late-Victorian periodical / Graeme Gooday.

Topics

• Journalism, Scientific :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• English periodicals :: History :: 19th century

Science in the nineteenth-century periodical : reading the magazine of nature. ISBN 0521836379. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.