Laurel Brake
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1124805 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laurel Brake |
| NOMBRES | Laurel |
| APELLIDO | Brake |
| FIRMA | BRAKE L |
| AFILIACIONES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
In our Time
This document has been compiled to clarify the historical origins of three strands of adult education in the nineteenth century that contributed to the experiment of their conflation at Birkbeck in two decades of the twentieth century, from 1988 when the University of London’s Department of Extra-Mural Studies joined the college, through to its finale in 2009, when Extra-Mural was integrated into the college, and its extensive outreach programme …
In our Time
In this article I suggest that three strands of adult education in the nineteenth century contributed to the experiment of the affiliation of Extra-Mural Studies and Birkbeck between 1988 and 2009: those of the mechanics’ institutions, the University of London, and Extra-Mural (‘Extension’). Although these strands had distinct origins, they were all respondents to the popular demand of the day for access to education by adults excluded from furth…
The Functions of Criticism and the Politics of Appreciation
This article suggests that ‘appreciation’ as defined by Walter Pater is a genre of criticism distinguished from that of Matthew Arnold’s critical practice and theory. I consider how appreciation functions as a critical mode in Pater’s periodical reviews, testing Pater’s resolve in how he manages it in respect to reviews of books on controversial subjects such as religion, aestheticism, and revolution. The article ends with a case study of Pater’s…
George Eliot and Print Media
It is helpful to understand George Eliot as a ‘woman of letters’ whose literary work extends beyond the novel, even fiction. The considerable variety of formats and range of genres of which Marian Evans/George Eliot availed herself between 1840 and 1880 are directly related to the coincidence of her lifespan with the efflorescence of the press. This article examines the trajectory of her career through three networks of print production: that of …
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
The Deaths of Heroes
This chapter explores the relationship between late nineteenth-century life writing published in serials such as newspapers, journals and the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) and discourses of homosexuality between 1890 and 1900. It focuses on the obituaries and biographies of three gay writers, J.A. Symonds, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, who died in April 1893, July 1894 and November 1900, respectively. The chapter discusses the range of e…
Better Together
This is a paper about the intertwined lives of two Victorian siblings, Clara and Walter Pater (1841–1910 and 1839–1894 respectively). It highlights their gendered acquisition of higher education between 1859 and 1879 that resulted in their parallel employment at Oxford as tutors of classics, he at Brasenose College and she at Somerville. It also examines the problems of writing women’s history and about women’s lives; how do women enter history? …
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
The virtue of this book for readers of Media History is that it is a comparative study of news in print, radio, and TV media. Barnhurst’s Preface freshly interrogates the phenomenon of news, genera
W.T. Stead and Democracy
The Civil War of the early 1860's meant that America was much in the news and newspapers; by the early 1870's, the ubiquitous and brash American press itself attracted notice. It is instructive to have Arnold's Democracy, written over 15 years before, transferred from its 1861 context of state secondary schools in France and Civil War in America to the de-nationalized, political abstract of democracy associated with them both. In Democracy', Arno…
Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities
Rebranding the News of the World
‘It stands first in point of circulation of all the journals exclusively dedicated to public intelligence and the general business of a newspaper’, NOTW advert, Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press, 1888, vol. 2, p. 1120
Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines
No potential reader of this book should surmise from its title that it is limited to serialization and fiction. Rather it is about the genre of the mid-Victorian periodical miscellany as a “collabo
Half Full and Half Empty
Prior to digitization, newspaper research was primarily undertaken by historianspolitical, local, social, cultural, art, scientific, legal or literary -who had reason and time to trawl slowly through bound volumes of unwieldy and desiccated broadsheets or, when paper copy was unavailable, to manage microfilm. While the great majority of historians consulted newspaper content in search of other topics, a small number researched the medium itself. …
The Longevity of ‘Ephemera’
A combination of the practices of the printing industry and social institutions has ensured that some of the nineteenth-century press has survived, inviting us to re-think its status as ephemera, and to examine the history of its survival and the meaning of the formats in which it has been preserved. Most of the century's newspapers and periodicals available today were bound into annual or semi-annual volumes, produced by publishers precisely for…
Charles Knight
Reviewed by: Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer Laurel Brake (bio) Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer, by Valerie Gray; pp. xxii + 233. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, $99.95, £55.00. To write a compact biography of a subject as productive and wide-ranging as Charles Knight (1791–1873) is necessarily a task of compression and shaping, and Valerie Gray's narrative manages both. Gray's volume, the first book-length assess…
On Print Culture
Journal Article On Print Culture: The State We're In Get access Laurel Brake Laurel Brake 1Birkbeck London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 125–136, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2001.6.1.125 Published: 01 January 2001
Doing the biz
The DNB and the DNB ‘Walter Pater’
The Dictionary of National Biography is a great achievement of nineteenth-century English scholarship, and its first two editors, Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, were knighted for their work. The double focus of this paper is designed to ensure that we see it not only in terms of its self-proclaimed theory but also in practice, through considering the versions, author, and adequacy of one biography.KeywordsEnglish LiteratureBibliographical NoteCon…
Walter Pater
Subjugated Knowledges
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, h
Gendered space
Investigating Victorian Journalism
Part 1 Theorizing journalism: reading the periodical press - text and context, Lynn Pykett towards a theory of the periodical as a publishing genre, Margaret Beetham popular narrative and political discourse in Reynolds' Weekly Newspaper, Anne Humphreys newspaper and periodicals in historical research, Edward Royle. Part 2 The diversity of Victorian journalism: local journalism in Victorian political culture, Aled Jones Welsh periodicals - a surv…
On Print Culture
Journal Article On Print Culture: The State We're In Get access Laurel Brake Laurel Brake 1Birkbeck London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 125–136, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2001.6.1.125 Published: 01 January 2001
Half Full and Half Empty
Prior to digitization, newspaper research was primarily undertaken by historianspolitical, local, social, cultural, art, scientific, legal or literary -who had reason and time to trawl slowly through bound volumes of unwieldy and desiccated broadsheets or, when paper copy was unavailable, to manage microfilm. While the great majority of historians consulted newspaper content in search of other topics, a small number researched the medium itself. …
The Longevity of ‘Ephemera’
A combination of the practices of the printing industry and social institutions has ensured that some of the nineteenth-century press has survived, inviting us to re-think its status as ephemera, and to examine the history of its survival and the meaning of the formats in which it has been preserved. Most of the century's newspapers and periodicals available today were bound into annual or semi-annual volumes, produced by publishers precisely for…
Investigating Victorian Journalism
Part 1 Theorizing journalism: reading the periodical press - text and context, Lynn Pykett towards a theory of the periodical as a publishing genre, Margaret Beetham popular narrative and political discourse in Reynolds' Weekly Newspaper, Anne Humphreys newspaper and periodicals in historical research, Edward Royle. Part 2 The diversity of Victorian journalism: local journalism in Victorian political culture, Aled Jones Welsh periodicals - a surv…
Gendered space
The DNB and the DNB ‘Walter Pater’
The Dictionary of National Biography is a great achievement of nineteenth-century English scholarship, and its first two editors, Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, were knighted for their work. The double focus of this paper is designed to ensure that we see it not only in terms of its self-proclaimed theory but also in practice, through considering the versions, author, and adequacy of one biography.KeywordsEnglish LiteratureBibliographical NoteCon…
Walter Pater
Subjugated Knowledges
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, h
Doing the biz
On Print Culture
Journal Article On Print Culture: The State We're In Get access Laurel Brake Laurel Brake 1Birkbeck London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 125–136, https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2001.6.1.125 Published: 01 January 2001
Charles Knight
Reviewed by: Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer Laurel Brake (bio) Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer, by Valerie Gray; pp. xxii + 233. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, $99.95, £55.00. To write a compact biography of a subject as productive and wide-ranging as Charles Knight (1791–1873) is necessarily a task of compression and shaping, and Valerie Gray's narrative manages both. Gray's volume, the first book-length assess…
The Longevity of ‘Ephemera’
A combination of the practices of the printing industry and social institutions has ensured that some of the nineteenth-century press has survived, inviting us to re-think its status as ephemera, and to examine the history of its survival and the meaning of the formats in which it has been preserved. Most of the century's newspapers and periodicals available today were bound into annual or semi-annual volumes, produced by publishers precisely for…
Half Full and Half Empty
Prior to digitization, newspaper research was primarily undertaken by historianspolitical, local, social, cultural, art, scientific, legal or literary -who had reason and time to trawl slowly through bound volumes of unwieldy and desiccated broadsheets or, when paper copy was unavailable, to manage microfilm. While the great majority of historians consulted newspaper content in search of other topics, a small number researched the medium itself. …
W.T. Stead and Democracy
The Civil War of the early 1860's meant that America was much in the news and newspapers; by the early 1870's, the ubiquitous and brash American press itself attracted notice. It is instructive to have Arnold's Democracy, written over 15 years before, transferred from its 1861 context of state secondary schools in France and Civil War in America to the de-nationalized, political abstract of democracy associated with them both. In Democracy', Arno…
Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities
Rebranding the News of the World
‘It stands first in point of circulation of all the journals exclusively dedicated to public intelligence and the general business of a newspaper’, NOTW advert, Sell’s Dictionary of the World’s Press, 1888, vol. 2, p. 1120
Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines
No potential reader of this book should surmise from its title that it is limited to serialization and fiction. Rather it is about the genre of the mid-Victorian periodical miscellany as a “collabo
The Deaths of Heroes
This chapter explores the relationship between late nineteenth-century life writing published in serials such as newspapers, journals and the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) and discourses of homosexuality between 1890 and 1900. It focuses on the obituaries and biographies of three gay writers, J.A. Symonds, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, who died in April 1893, July 1894 and November 1900, respectively. The chapter discusses the range of e…
Better Together
This is a paper about the intertwined lives of two Victorian siblings, Clara and Walter Pater (1841–1910 and 1839–1894 respectively). It highlights their gendered acquisition of higher education between 1859 and 1879 that resulted in their parallel employment at Oxford as tutors of classics, he at Brasenose College and she at Somerville. It also examines the problems of writing women’s history and about women’s lives; how do women enter history? …
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
The virtue of this book for readers of Media History is that it is a comparative study of news in print, radio, and TV media. Barnhurst’s Preface freshly interrogates the phenomenon of news, genera
Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
George Eliot and Print Media
It is helpful to understand George Eliot as a ‘woman of letters’ whose literary work extends beyond the novel, even fiction. The considerable variety of formats and range of genres of which Marian Evans/George Eliot availed herself between 1840 and 1880 are directly related to the coincidence of her lifespan with the efflorescence of the press. This article examines the trajectory of her career through three networks of print production: that of …
The Functions of Criticism and the Politics of Appreciation
This article suggests that ‘appreciation’ as defined by Walter Pater is a genre of criticism distinguished from that of Matthew Arnold’s critical practice and theory. I consider how appreciation functions as a critical mode in Pater’s periodical reviews, testing Pater’s resolve in how he manages it in respect to reviews of books on controversial subjects such as religion, aestheticism, and revolution. The article ends with a case study of Pater’s…
In our Time
This document has been compiled to clarify the historical origins of three strands of adult education in the nineteenth century that contributed to the experiment of their conflation at Birkbeck in two decades of the twentieth century, from 1988 when the University of London’s Department of Extra-Mural Studies joined the college, through to its finale in 2009, when Extra-Mural was integrated into the college, and its extensive outreach programme …
In our Time
In this article I suggest that three strands of adult education in the nineteenth century contributed to the experiment of the affiliation of Extra-Mural Studies and Birkbeck between 1988 and 2009: those of the mechanics’ institutions, the University of London, and Extra-Mural (‘Extension’). Although these strands had distinct origins, they were all respondents to the popular demand of the day for access to education by adults excluded from furth…
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