Innovators and Preachers: The Role of the Editor in Victorian England

by Joel H. Wiener

This volume consists of fifteen essays by leading scholars dealing with the Victorian editor and his influence on the culture of his time. The first section analyzes the relationship between Victorian editors and their audience. The essays show how editors effectively balanced fiction and politics, how social change effected periodical publishing, and how editors dealt with Victorian sexual and moral preoccupations. The second section places the editor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313241643
• ISBN13: 9780313241642
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"