E. M. Palmegiano. - The British Empire in the Victorian Press, 1832-1867: A Bibliography

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Volume 5

THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE VICTORIAN PRESS, 18321867

A Bibliography

E. M. PALMEGIANO

First published in 1987 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

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A Bibliography

E.M. Palmegiano

1987 E.M. Palmegiano

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Palmegiano, E. M.

The British Empire in the Victorian Press, 18321867.

(Themes in European Expansion; vol. 8) (Garland
Reference Library of Social Science; vol. 389)

Includes indexes.

1. Great BritainColoniesHistory19th centurySourcesBibliography. 2. English periodicalsIndexes. I. Title. II. Series: Themes in European Expansion; v. 8. III. Series: Garland Reference Library of Social Science; v. 389.

Z2021.C7P32 1987 [DA16] 016.941081 8629624

ISBN 0-8240-9802-1 (alk. paper)

Printed on acid-free, 250-year-life paper

Manufactured in the United States of America

For Mimi and Jack

There is no way to thank all who have contributed to this book but a few deserve special mention.

The staffs of the British Library, London and the New York Public Library showed great patience and skill in locating missing or misnumbered materials. I am especially indebted to Sallie Hannigan and the entire staff of the Newark Public Library where most of the evidence was gathered.

Jean H. Slingerland, Executive Editor of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, kindly supplied updated lists of the periodicals to be included in volume IV.

The administration of Saint Peters College awarded me a fellowship which afforded the time and funding for study. Many of my colleagues lent inspiration by virtue of their own commitments to research.

James A. Casada, the series editor, read the first draft with great care and gave generously of his time to improve the quality of the final manuscript.

Lorraine M. Kozar kept my office running smoothly during the many months of the project.

Aidan C. McMullen, S.J., provided ongoing support and criticism.

To all of these people, I am most grateful. Their assistance made possible the completion, though neither the errors nor omissions, of this work.

E.M. Palmegiano

This volume, The British Empire in the Victorian Press, 18321867: A Bibliography, forms a welcome addition to the series Themes in European Expansion as well as filling a significant gap in the existing corpus of reference works on British imperial history. In it Professor Eugenia Palmegiano addresses herself to the important task of unearthing the rich and virtually untapped sources for the study of colonial history provided by the myriad periodical publications which flourished in the early and mid-Victorian period. This was an age in which the printed word reigned supreme as a form of communication, a fact all too easily forgotten in the world of today with its dominance by electrically transmitted visual images and spoken words. The literate Victorian public were avid readers, and nothing titillated their collective curiosities more than developments in the far-flung reaches of Empire. Through the extensive listings of this bibliographyclose to 3000 entries drawn from some fifty London-based magazineswe see the rich and diverse threads which interwove to form the colorful fabric which was the British Empire at the height of its grandeur.

The authors focus on London and periodicals published there is an appropriate one, for the infernal wen which was this massive metropolis not only served as the hub of Empire; geographically speaking it is the only logical approach to examining developments in those portions of the globe invariably depicted by cartographers of the period in resplendent hues of red. She opens with a substantial narrative introductiona feature of all the volumes in this serieswhich explains the process of selection employed in the fashioning of the bibliography as well as setting the historiographical stage for the entries which follow. In particular, the variegated geographical themes touched upon in this essay offer some indication of the comprehensive nature of this reference work. Indeed, it is no overstatement to say that what Palmegiano has done, in essence, is to smooth the path for all future researchers in this period of imperial history. Her study picks up where the indispensable volumes of the Wellesley Index toVictorian Periodicals leaves off, carrying students of imperial history, together with those in a host of related disciplines and themes, to a point where they have instant access to pertinent references from a vast array of journals.

Today most of these journals are relatively obscureseveral of those covered are new to me despite falling directly in my own area of scholarly specializationbut what is of primary significance is the fact that thev were viable publications with appreciable lists of subscribers in their Victorian heyday. Accordingly, they offer the researcher access to hundreds of little-trodden avenues leading into the labyrinths of Britains imperial past. Only when many of these avenues have been explored and charted will we be able to say that we have something approaching a true understanding of that exceedingly complex ethos which was at the heart of Victorias Empire. From tiger trails in Bengal to idyllic island scenes in Barbados, all that was spectacular, not to mention sordid, in that splendid mid-nineteenth century imperial edifice passes in review. In short, endless gems await the enterprising researcher, and Professor Palmegiano has done most of our work for us.