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.

'...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

• 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.

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.

'...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

• 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.

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.

'...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

• 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.