Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 18326
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474419659
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture, 1690s-1820s, co-edited by Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell, is a major scholarly work. In 30+ essays and 253,000+ words, it provides the first comprehensive analysis of women’s engagement with 18th-century periodical print culture. The editors’ conceptualisation of the volume is the fruit of more than 30 years combined work in the field of periodical studies and was supported by various travel and research grants, including Batchelor’s Leverhulme Research Project Grant (2014-16) and Fellowship (2017). Documenting and analysing well over 100 serial publications, the book is the key reference work in its field.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690-1820s is the first in a landmark five-volume series entitled ‘The Edinburgh History of Women’s Periodical Culture in Britain’. Co-edited by Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell (Purdue), the volume brings together 30 newly commissioned research essays by established and early career academics. The book uses cross-disciplinary methodologies (e.g. book history, digital humanities, material culture and media studies) to overturn long-held yet erroneous assumptions about women’s exclusion from eighteenth-century periodical culture.
As co-editor, Batchelor had 50% responsibility for the volume’s rationale, organisation and chronological/methodological/theoretical/media coverage. She also commissioned half the individual essays, which were grouped in thematically organised sections. The book proposal that Batchelor and Powell wrote together set out the research rationale for the book’s organisation on 45 pages. Batchelor had 50% responsibility for editing and revising essays in conversation with authors, and for sourcing around half of the 24 illustrations the book contains.
Batchelor’s single-authored contribution to the volume is an 8.500-word essay which offers a wholescale re-evaluation of the implications of the birth of the women’s magazine on women’s engagement with periodical print culture. In addition, Batchelor co-wrote (50% with Powell) a substantial, 9.500-word state-of-the-field ‘Introduction’ for the volume and three of the book’s six section introductions (Batchelor’s share approx. 4.500 words). She also co-devised (50%) a reference ‘Chronology’ of periodicals from 1690-1820 and discursive book-historical ‘Appendix’ (approx. 5.000 words in total).
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- Non-English
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