Science in the nineteenth-century periodical : reading the magazine of nature / Geoffrey Cantor [and others].

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

xi, 329 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Introduction / Gowan Dawson, Richard Noakes, and Jonathan R. Topham -- The Mirror of literature, Amusement and instruction, and cheap miscellanies in early nineteenth-century Britain ; The Wesleyan-Methodist magazine and religious monthlies in early nineteenth-century Britain / Jonathan R. Topham -- Punch and comic journalism in mid-Victorian Britain / Richard Noakes -- The Cornhill magazine and shilling monthlies in mid-Victorian Britain / Gowan Dawson -- The Boy's own paper and late-Victorian juvenile magazines / Richard Noakes -- The Review of reviews and the new journalism in late-Victorian Britain / Gowan Dawson -- Tickling babies: gender, authority, and 'baby science' / Sally Shuttleworth -- Scientific biography in the periodical press / Geoffrey Cantor -- Profit and prophecy: electricity in the late-Victorian periodical / Graeme Gooday.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-313) and index.