Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and Oregon State University Humanities Center since receiving his PhD from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize. He is the recipient of a number of professional awards including the Joseph Conrad Society's Juliet McLauchlan Essay Prize. His work on nineteenth-century print culture has appeared in English Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Henry James Review, English Language Notes, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. He has also contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture and Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION: THE AGE OF NEWSPAPERS; PART I: THE FRONT PAGE; PART II: THE INNER PAGES; CONCLUSION: THE BACK PAGE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

This study succeeds in documenting historically the narratological proximity and the inter-media competition of journalism and the novel in the early and mid- Victorian period.

Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and Oregon State University Humanities Center since receiving his PhD from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize. He is the recipient of a number of professional awards including the Joseph Conrad Society's Juliet McLauchlan Essay Prize. His work on nineteenth-century print culture has appeared in English Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Henry James Review, English Language Notes, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. He has also contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture and Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION: THE AGE OF NEWSPAPERS; PART I: THE FRONT PAGE; PART II: THE INNER PAGES; CONCLUSION: THE BACK PAGE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

This study succeeds in documenting historically the narratological proximity and the inter-media competition of journalism and the novel in the early and mid- Victorian period.

Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and Oregon State University Humanities Center since receiving his PhD from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize. He is the recipient of a number of professional awards including the Joseph Conrad Society's Juliet McLauchlan Essay Prize. His work on nineteenth-century print culture has appeared in English Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Henry James Review, English Language Notes, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. He has also contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture and Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION: THE AGE OF NEWSPAPERS; PART I: THE FRONT PAGE; PART II: THE INNER PAGES; CONCLUSION: THE BACK PAGE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

This study succeeds in documenting historically the narratological proximity and the inter-media competition of journalism and the novel in the early and mid- Victorian period.