Vol. 29 No. 1: (Spring 2002): Special Issue on Nineteenth-Century Platform Culture

Articles

• Aspects of Platform Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

  Martin Hewitt

  1-32

• Finding an Audience: The Political Platform, the Lecture Platform, and the Rhetoric of Self-Help

  Karen Boiko

  33-49

• Seen but not Heard? Women’s Platforms, Respectability, and Female Publics in the Mid- Nineteenth Century

  Simon Morgan

  50-67

• The Egyptian Hall and the Platform of Transatlantic Exchange: Charles Brown, P.T. Barnum, and Albert Smith

  Simon Featherstone

  68-77

• The Enslaved as Spectacle: Ellen Craft, Sarah Parker Remond, and American Slavery in England

  Theresa Zackodnik

  78-102

• ‘A Nobler End’: Mary Webb and the Victorian Platform

  Eric Gardner

  103-116

• Any Questions? The Gendered Dimensions of the Political Platform

  Helen Rogers

  117-132

• Charles Kingsley Speaking in Public: Empowered or at Risk?

  Caroline Rose

  133-150

• Working the Room: The Cases of Mary H. Kingsley and H.G. Wells

  Julie English Early

  151-167