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Periodical studies is an interdisciplinary field of the humanities and social sciences concerned with the study of periodical literature, typically including newspapers and magazines. Although periodicals have long been a subject of academic study, the emergence of periodical studies as a cohesive field is often traced to the rise of digital archives.[1]
History
editWhile periodical studies is often considered a product of the digital age, the roots of the field go back considerably further. Many of the techniques of periodical studies were first developed among Victorian studies scholars.[2] The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, which appeared in five volumes from 1966 to 1989, is among the field's founding texts.[3] The first volume, and Walter Houghton's reflections on editing it, inspired Michael Wolff to establish the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and its journal in 1968.[4]
Organizations
editJournals
edit- American Periodicals
- Journal of European Periodical Studies
- Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
- Media History (formerly the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History (1984–1993) and Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History)
- Victorian Periodicals Review
- Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies
References
edit- ^ Latham, Sean; Scholes, Robert (March 2006). "The Rise of Periodical Studies". Proceedings of the Modern Language Association. 121 (2). Cambridge University Press: 517–531.
- ^ Alexander, Rachael (2021). Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781785273490.
- ^ Hughes, Linda K. (2007). "What the "Wellesley Index" Left out: Why Poetry Matters to Periodical Studies". Victorian Periodicals Review. 40 (2 (Summer 2007)): 91.
- ^ Schmidt, Barbara Quinn (1989). "The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals; 1824-1900; Volume IV by Walter E. Houghton, Esther Rhoads Houghton, Jean Harris Slingerland". Victorian Periodicals Review. 22 (2 (Summer 1989)): 71.
External links
editCategory:Digital humanities Category:Periodicals Category:Literary criticism