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Subjugated Knowledges Laurel Brake

Subjugated Knowledges By Laurel Brake

Subjugated Knowledges by Laurel Brake


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Examining the relation of print and culture in the 19th century, this book scrutinizes the cultural politics and production of Victorian magazines. A high degree of interdependence among literature, history and journalism is alleged, and ways in which space is designated male or female is explored.

Subjugated Knowledges Summary

Subjugated Knowledges: Journalism, Gender and Literature, in the Nineteenth Century by Laurel Brake

Examining the relation of print and culture in the 19th century, this book scrutinizes the cultural politics and production of Victorian magazines. A high degree of interdependence among literature, history and journalism is alleged, and ways in which space is designated male or female is explored.

Subjugated Knowledges Reviews

'...a thought-provoking book which advances our knowledge of Victorian journalism. Pater and Arnold, and even Wilde, would have approved.' - Joanne Shattock, Times Literary Supplement

About Laurel Brake

LAUREL BRAKE is Reader in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck College, She is the author of Subjugated Knowledges (1994) and Walter Pater (1994), and has co-edited Investigating Victorian Journalism (1990), Pater in the 1990s (1991) and The Endings of Epochs (1995). She has published articles and reviews on nineteenth-century literature, publishing and cultural theory.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Literature and journalism: criticism and the Victorian periodical press; from critic to literary critic - the case of the Academy, 1869; theories of formation - the Nineteenth Century; the discourses of journalism; the old journalism and the new; Harper's New Monthly Magazine - American censorship, European decadence and the periodicals market in the 1890s. Part 2 Gendered space: Oscar Wilde and the Woman's World; The Savoy - 1896, crisis in gender?. Part 3 Biography and the construction of authorship: the DNB and the DNB Walter Pater; Judas and the widow.

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NLS9780333606728
9780333606728
0333606728
Subjugated Knowledges: Journalism, Gender and Literature, in the Nineteenth Century by Laurel Brake
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
1994-03-28
228
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