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Abstract
This article explores the media transfer between books and periodicals by example of historical narratives serialized within the Religious Tract Society’s family magazine Leisure Hour (1852-1905). A look at the travelling of texts and ideas between these two media shows that the RTS not only negotiated media boundaries but operated at the intersection of other categories, such as class and gender, linked to the reputation of the different media as well as modes of representation and approaches to history. In a combination of book history and periodical studies under a historical culture perspective, the article focuses on three case studies: (1) the transition from book into periodical serial and the (re)appropriation of history for a working-class audience; (2) the collection of a periodical series into book form and the author’s boundary-work under the regulation of the RTS; (3) the transfer of material features in the creation of monthly parts and shift in historical genre.
Résumé
Cet article examine le transfert médiatique entre livres et périodiques, à partir de l’exemple des récits historiques parus dans le magazine familial « Leisure Hour » (1852-1905), publié par la Religious Tract Society (RTS). L’analyse de la migration des textes et idées entre ces deux supports révèle que la RTS en défiait les frontières, adaptant ses modes de représentation et approches de l’histoire plutôt en fonction d’autres facteurs, tels que la classe sociale et le sexe. En combinant histoire du livre et études des périodiques dans une perspective historico-culturelle, cet article se concentre sur trois études de cas: (1) le passage de livre à périodique et la réappropriation de l’histoire pour un public de la classe ouvrière; (2) la publication d’un feuilleton sous forme de livre et le travail de transposition régi par la RTS; (3) l’actualisation des caractéristiques matérielles et du genre historique dans le passage aux épisodes mensuels.
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