The Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 18001914

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This volume explores the nineteenth-century transnational British press published in non-Anglophone countries across Europe, the Levant, the Mediterranean, Asia and Latin America during a key period of press development and of British expansionism. Edited by an international research team, the twenty-five original essays contribute significantly to recent periodicals scholarship by bringing under study long-ignored publications and analysing them within both their global and local historical, cultural, technological and journalistic contexts. Adopting an approach that focuses on networks, circulation and exchange to draw the outlines of this transnational press formation, it pays special attention to the international trajectories and intercultural competencies of their editors and staff, the function this press fulfilled for the British expatriate communities and their host societies and its status within the local, British and global media ecosystems. In turn, it highlights the circulation and adaptation of press models across borders and broadens our understanding of what constituted the nineteenth-century British press.

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Diana Cooper-Richet is Senior Researcher at the Centre d'Histoire Culturelle des Socits Contemporaines at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and the founder of the Transfopress network. She has written extensively on the English-Language press in France and Europe. Her recent publications include: 'English-Language Periodicals in Parisian Reading Rooms and the Cross-Channel Transfer of Editorial Innovation', in Cultural History, 10, n 2 (2021), 'The English-Language Press in Continental Europe' in The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press. Expansion and Evolution (1800-1900), edited by David Finkelstein (2020); and La France Anglaise de la Rvolution nos jours (2018). Isabelle Richet is Professor Emerita at Universit de Paris where she taught in the English-Studies Department. She is a member of the steering committee of the Transfopress Network. She has written extensively on the British in Italy and their press. Among her recent publications: 'Standing on the edge of two cultural worlds: The English-Language Press in Italy', Media History, 28, 2 (Spring 2022); 'English-Language Periodicals and Reading Rooms in Ninetten-Century Italy as Spaces of Intercultural Contact and Exchange', Cultural History 10, n 2, 2021; Women, Antifascism and Mussolini's Italy: The Life of Marion Cave Rosselli (2018). Jennifer Hayward is Professor of English and Global Media and Digital Study at the College of Wooster, USA. She is co-director of the Anglophone Chile Project, a digital archive of the English Press in 19th Century Chile and has published widely on the British in 19th Century Latin America. Michelle Prain Brice is Professor of Literature at Universidad Adolfo Ibezs Liberal Arts Faculty, Chile. Her research focuses on British nineteenth and twentieth century culture and Anglo-Chilean heritage. She is a co-director of the Anglophone Chile project, a digital archive of the English press in 1th Century Chile, Among her recent publications: 'The Valparaiso (Chile) Anglophone Periodical Press: Voices from the Borders of Empire', Journal of European Periodical Studies 7, n 1 (2021); 'Imagining the Araucanians in nineteenth century British and Chilean Press", Victorian Periodicals Review,54, n 3 (2021).