03639nam 2200649 450 991045610760332120200520144314.01-282-00826-997866120082691-4426-7836-410.3138/9781442678361(CKB)2420000000004272(EBL)3251292(SSID)ssj0000305775(PQKBManifestationID)11226325(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000305775(PQKBWorkID)10293602(PQKB)11444254(CaPaEBR)417656(CaBNvSL)thg00600144(MiAaPQ)EBC3251292(MiAaPQ)EBC4671819(DE-B1597)464740(OCoLC)944177668(DE-B1597)9781442678361(Au-PeEL)EBL4671819(CaPaEBR)ebr11257512(OCoLC)958565087(EXLCZ)99242000000000427220160923h19961996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPeriodicals of Queen Victoria's empire an exploration /edited by J. Don Vann and Rosemary T. VanArsdelToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] :University of Toronto Press,1996.©19961 online resource (382 p.)Includes index.0-8020-0810-0 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Australia -- 2. Canada -- 3. India -- 4. New Zealand -- 5. Southern Africa -- 6. Outposts of Empire -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Contemporary 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.Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire is an initial step towards understanding and analyzing what its editors regard as the 'unseen power' of the periodical press in the British Empire of the nineteenth century.PressGreat BritainColoniesHistory19th centuryGreat BritainColoniesPeriodicalsHistory19th centuryElectronic books.PressColoniesHistory052.09034Vann J. Don(Jerry Don),1938-VanArsdel Rosemary T.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456107603321Periodicals of Queen Victoria's empire2476924UNINA