Preface; Introduction; Annotated Bibliography: 'Ainsworth's Magazine', 1842-1854; 'All the Year Round', 1859-1895; 'Bentley's Miscellany', 1837-1868; 'Bentley's Quarterly Review', 1859-1860; 'Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine', 1824-1900; 'The British and Foreign Review', 1835-1844; 'The British Quarterly Review', 1845-1886; 'Chambers's (Edinburgh) Journal', 1832-1900; 'The Contemporary Review', 1866-1900; 'The Cornhill Magazine', 1860-1900; 'The Dark Blue', 1871-1873; 'The Dublin Review', 1836-1900; 'The Dublin University Magazine', 1833-1880; 'The Edinburgh Review', 1802-1900; 'The Foreign Quarterly Review', 1827-1846; 'The Fortnightly Review', 1865-1900; 'Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country', 1830-1882; 'Good Words', 1860-1900; 'Hogg's (Weekly) Instructor', 1845-1856; 'The Home and Foreign Review', 1862-1864; 'Household Words', 1850-1859; 'Howitt's Journal', 1847-1848; 'The Leisure Hour', 1852-1900; 'The London Quarterly Review', 1853-1900; 'The London Review', 1829-1830; 'Longman's Magazine', 1882-1900; 'Macmillan's Magazine', 1859-1900; 'The Modern Review', 1880-1884; 'The Monthly Chronicle', 1838-1841; 'Murray's Magazine', 1887-1891; 'The National Review', 1855-1864; 'The National Review', 1883-1900; 'The New Monthly Magazine', 1821-1854; 'The New Quarterly Magazine', 1873-1880; 'The New Review', 1889-1897; 'The Nineteenth Century', 1877-1900; 'The North British Review', 1844-1871; 'The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine', 1856; 'The Prospective Review', 1845-1855; 'The Quarterly Review', 1824-1900; 'The Rambler', 1848-1862; 'Saint Pauls', 1867-1874; 'The Scottish Review', 1882-1900; 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine', 1832-1855; 'Temple Bar', 1860-1900; 'The Theological Review', 1864-1879; 'Titan: A Monthly Magazine', 1856-1859; 'The Westminster Review', 1824-1900; Key to Indexes; Author Index; Subject Index

This annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British periodicals, complete with a detailed subject index, reveals how Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the origins and contemporary character of the domestic, imperial and foreign press. Drawn from a wide range of publications representing diverse political, economic, religious, social and literary views, this book contains over 4,500 entries, and features extracts from over forty nineteenth-century periodicals. The articles cataloged offer a thorough and influential analysis of their journalistic milieu, presenting statistics on sales and descriptions of advertising, passing judgment on space allocations, pinpointing different readerships, and identifying individuals who engaged with the press either exclusively or occasionally. Most importantly, the bibliography demonstrates that columnists routinely articulated ideas about the purpose of the press, yet rarely recognized the illogic of prioritizing public good and private profit simultaneously, thus highlighting implicitly a universal characteristic of journalism: its fractious, ambiguous, conflicting behavior.