"Cover"--"Half Title"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Dedication" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Investing in the National Standard: representing 'Belles-Lettres'" -- "2 Echoes and Narcissisms: repetitions and structures of. self across the periodical lines - signature and persona in the Paris Literary Gazette and Eraser's Magazine" -- "3 The foreign correspondent: writing across borders in The Constitutional and The Adventures of Philip" -- "4 Journalistic metamorphoses: women, sensationalism, and periodical fiction - Catherine: A Story and The Ravenswing in Eraser's Magazine" -- "5 Confronting the French: The Paris Sketch-Book and travelling French letters" -- "6 The public and the press: journalistic authority, self-advertising, and the periodical commodity in social essays for Fraser's Magazine and Punch" -- "7 Deconstructing the press: Punch, the journalistic persona, and the contributor of'Fat'" -- "8 Mediahood and manhood in Pendennis" -- "9 Warring spirits: Cornhill's "Notch on the Axe' and Dickens' sensational All the Year Round" -- "Appendix 1: Three contributions to the Paris Literary Gazette, 1835" -- "Appendix 2: Thackeray's contributions to the Original, 1832" -- "Appendix 3: Thackeray's contributions to the National Standard, 1833-4" -- "Selected Bibliography