Subjugated Knowledges

LAUREL BRAKE is Reader in Literature and Print Culture at Birkbeck College, She is the author of Subjugated Knowledges (1994) and Walter Pater (1994), and has co-edited Investigating Victorian Journalism (1990), Pater in the 1990s (1991) and The Endings of Epochs (1995). She has published articles and reviews on nineteenth-century literature, publishing and cultural theory.

• Part 1 Literature and journalism: criticism and the Victorian periodical press; from critic to literary critic - the case of the "Academy", 1869; theories of formation - the "Nineteenth Century"; the discourses of journalism; the old journalism and the new; "Harper's New Monthly Magazine" - American censorship, European decadence and the periodicals market in the 1890s. Part 2 Gendered space: Oscar Wilde and the "Woman's World"; "The Savoy" - 1896, crisis in gender?. Part 3 Biography and the construction of authorship: the "DNB" and the "DNB" "Walter Pater"; Judas and the widow.

'...a thought-provoking book which advances our knowledge of Victorian journalism. Pater and Arnold, and even Wilde, would have approved.' - Joanne Shattock, Times Literary Supplement