Periodical Press Revolution

Graham Law is Honorary Professor of Waseda University, Tokyo, to which he has been affiliated since 1992. He has taught literary and media history at various academic institutions in Japan since 1981. He has authored many articles and books on nineteenth-century studies, including Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press (2000), and worked on a number of scholarly editions in the same field, most notably The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins. With Jenny Bourne Taylor, he has recently completed E. S. Dallas in 'The Times', an edited anthology of Dallas's work as a journalist.

Awarded Honorary Mention in the prestigious annual RSVP (Research Society for Victorian Periodicals) Colby Book Prize for 2024!"The award committee praised The Periodical Press Revolution for offering 'a bold and ambitious argument centred on E. S. Dallas's influential 1859 essays for Blackwood's Magazine. Based on an intertwined methodology of quantitative data and qualitative argument, this is an impressive book about press transformations underpinned by a media theory approach. Graham Law gives fresh and valuable perspectives in particular on structural change and developments in the British nineteenth-century press through Dallas as an organizing figure.'"Fionnuala Dillane, Professor, University College Dublin

• Ch. 1. Introduction: Dallas on the Rise of the Periodical Press Ch. 2. Media History and Theory: A Literature ReviewPart A. Quantitative AnalysisCh. 3. Periodical Growth over the Century Ch. 4. Changing Periodical Distribution Part B. Qualitative AnalysisCh. 5. Periodical Authorship Ch. 6. Periodical PublishingCh. 7. Periodical ReadershipCh. 8. Conclusion: A Revolution in Communications