Mussell, J orcid.org/0000-0002-5697-1557 (2021) Confused and Ill-Arranged: Reading Miscellaneity with Enquire Within. Victorian Periodicals Review, 53 (4). pp. 496-519. ISSN 0709-4698
Abstract
Enquire Within was a domestic miscellany published monthly from January to November 1856. Reprinted on completion as a volume, it quickly became one of the best-selling books of the period. It offered a bewildering range of articles, but it was not until the publication of the final number that readers received the index and so were finally able to enquire within. Randomness can be unsettling, yet difference produces meaning. Taking Enquire Within as a case study, this paper examines the role of miscellaneity in the press and considers how the miscellaneous was made meaningful.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2021 12:45 |
Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2021 21:10 |
Published Version: | http://muse.jhu.edu/article/782721 |
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Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
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