Victorian Periodicals Review, 52.2: The Strand Magazine, 1891-1918 (special issue)
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 10
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40639
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This co-edited special journal issue, the first collection of scholarly essays on the popular Strand Magazine (1891-1950), brings together work by eight print culture researchers from the UK, US, Canada and Russia. As co-editors, Vuohelainen and Liggins worked closely together and with the contributors to develop a special issue that moves studies of the Strand beyond 1890s detective fiction and the magazine’s association with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. The special issue explores the Strand as a commercially significant middlebrow magazine during the first half of its sixty-year existence, foregrounding previously unexplored themes in the monthly such as the Strand’s role as a populariser of translated and modernist short fiction; the role of illustration; the magazine’s interest in social issues; the nature of middlebrow periodical publication; interviews and other non-fiction; supernatural fiction; and the Strand’s role in the war effort.
Vuohelainen and Liggins’s shared editorial work involved approaching Victorian Periodicals Review about the special issue, drafting a call for papers, reviewing proposals and commissioning essays, helping authors to develop the arguments and structure of their essays, suggesting revisions, and ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency across the special issue. The editors worked jointly on revising contributions and each essay was edited at least twice. The editors co-wrote the introduction (pp. 221-34), which explores the Strand as a middlebrow publication and identifies new critical foci for studies of the magazine. Vuohelainen also contributes a single-authored essay (pp. 389-418) on the Strand’s role during the First World War, in which she argues that the monthly articulated a number of sub-patriotisms targeting different sections of its increasingly diverse reading community. The essay seeks to establish the potential of middlebrow magazines as historical sources and challenges previous readings of the Strand as an essentially 1890s publication that failed to respond to changing times.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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