Table of Contents:
  • Green-stocking or blue? : science in three women's magazines, 1800-50 / Ann B. Shteir
  • 'Empty-headed beauty' and the 'sweet girl graduate' : women's science education in Punch, 1860-90 / Suzanne Le-May Sheffield
  • Making socialists or murdering to dissect? : natural history and child socialization in the Labour Prophet and Labour Leader / Caroline Sumpter
  • Periodical as barometer : spiritual measurement and the Evangelical Magazine / Sujit Sivasundaram
  • Periodicals and the making of reading audiences for science in early nineteenth-century Britain : the Youth's Magazine, 1828-37 / Jonathan R. Topham
  • Periodicals and book series : complementary aspects of a publisher's mission / Aileen Fyfe
  • Friends of science? : the role of science in Quaker periodicals / Geoffrey Cantor
  • Almanacs and the profits of natural knowledge / Katharine Anderson
  • 'In the natural course of physical things' : ghosts and science in Charles Dickens's All the Year Round / Louise Henson
  • W.T. Stead's occult economies / Roger Luckhurst
  • Science, industry, and nationalism in the Dublin Penny Journal / Elizabeth Tilley
  • Representing 'a century of inventions' : nineteenth-century technology and Victorian Punch / Richard Noakes
  • View from the hills : environment and technology in Victorian periodicals / Harriet Ritvo
  • 'I never will have the electric light in my house' : Alice Gordon and the gendered periodical representation of a contentious new technology / Graeme J.N. Gooday
  • Making of an editor : the case of William Crookes / William H. Brock
  • Knowledge confronts Nature : Richard Proctor and popular science periodicals / Bernard Lightman
  • 'Within the bounds of science' : redirecting controversies to Nature / Peter C. Kjœrgaard
  • Scientific authority and scientific controversy in Nature : north Britain against the X Club / Ruth Barton
  • 'Disturbing anarchy of investigation' : psychological debate and the Victorian periodical / Rick Rylance
  • Carving coconuts, the philosophy of drawing rooms, and the politics of dates : Grant Allen, popular scientific journalism, evolution, and culture in the Cornhill Magazine / David Amigoni
  • Academy and Cosmopolis : evolution and culture in Robert Louis Stevenson's periodical encounters / Julia Reid
  • Eugenics and freedom at the fin de siècle / Angelique Richardson.