The Edinburgh companion to British colonial periodicals / edited by David Finkelstein, David Johnson and Caroline Davis.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024]
Description
xiv, 563 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

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Series
Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities [More in this series]
Summary note
The first major overview of British colonial periodicals from the rise of the Empire to decolonisation.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Intro
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: British Colonial Periodicals in Context
  • Part I: Creating and Contesting the Colonial Public Sphere
  • 1. Authorship and Collective Self-Fashioning in Pre-Confederation English Canada
  • 2. Early Colonial Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Canada: The Literary Garland in Context
  • 3. The Afro-Caribbean Press and the Politics of Place in Jamaica and Barbados: The Watchman and Jamaica Free Press and The Liberal
  • 4. Mofussil versus Metropolis, Subalterns versus Seniors: The Rise and Demise of The Meerut Universal Magazine
  • 5. Writing the 'Wooden World': Periodicals and Settler Environmental Knowledge in Colonial New Zealand
  • 6. British Missionary Magazines at Home and Abroad: Southern Africa as Topic and Southern Africans as Readership
  • 7. The Sydney Bulletin and the Settler Colonial Subject
  • 8. Periodicals and Australian Federation
  • 9. The South African News and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902
  • 10. The Weekly West Africa: Commerce, Empire and Decolonisation
  • Part II: Women and Colonial Periodicals
  • 11. Transnational Reprinting and the Colonial Women's Magazine: The Montreal Museum, 1832-4
  • 12. The Birth of the Australian Women's Magazine: The New Idea, 1902-11
  • 13. Women's Writing and Reporting on Women in the Ghanaian and Nigerian Press, c. 1880-1930s
  • 14. Indian Women's Pre-Independence Periodicals in English: The Indian Ladies' Magazine, Stri-Dharma and the Indian New Woman
  • 15. Marriage Hygiene and the Internationalisation of Eugenical Sexology in the 1930s
  • Part III: Language and Colonial Periodicals
  • 16. Making Mαori Citizens in Colonial New Zealand: The Role of Government niupepa
  • 17. Language and the Making of the Colonial Modern: Periodicals from Late Nineteenth-Century Kerala, India
  • 18. Simple Letters? British and Pacific Literacies in the Victorian Missionary Periodical
  • 19. Interrogating the Imperial Factor and Convoking Black South Africa: The Cape African Newspaper Izwi Labantu, 1897-1909
  • 20. Colonial Government Periodicals in 1920s East Africa: Mambo Leo and Habari
  • 21. Print Networks and Linguistic Interaction in the Early Yoruba Press
  • 22. Colonial Entanglements: Black South African Periodicals and the Colonial Printsphere, 1920s-30s
  • Part IV: Trans-Colonial Connections in Colonial Periodicals
  • 23. Samuel Revans and Company: Colonial Commercial Trade Newspapers in the Age of Responsible Government
  • 24. Colonial Trade Identity and Labour Information Exchange in the International Typographical Trade Press, 1840-1910
  • 25. The Anglo-Zulu War in the Friend of India: Mediation, Meaning and Authority
  • 26. British Anarchism and the Colonial Question: The Case of Freedom, 1918-62
  • 27. The Atlantic Charter in British Colonial Periodicals
ISBN
  • 9781399500630 (hardcover)
  • 1399500635 (hardcover)
OCLC
1420622856
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