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Preface

1. Introduction Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes and Jonathan R. Topham

Part I. Genres: 2. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction and cheap miscellanies in early nineteenth-century Britain Jonathan R. Topham

3. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain Jonathan R. Topham

4. Punch, science and comic journalism in mid-Victorian Britain' Richard Noakes

5. The Cornhill Magazine and shilling monthlies in mid-Victorian Britain Gowan Dawson

6. The Boy's Own Paper, science, and late-Victorian juvenile magazines Richard Noakes

7. The Review of Reviews and the new journalism in late Victorian Britain Gowan Dawson

Part II. Themes: 8. Tickling babies: gender, authority, and 'baby science' Sally Shuttleworth

9. Scientific biography in the periodical press Geoffrey Cantor

10. Profit and prophecy: electricity in the late Victorian periodical Graeme Gooday

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