Descriptive Bibliography and the Victorian Periodical

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IS NOT CUSTOMARY FOR DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES TO PRESENT periodical
publications in the same format, or with the same level of detail, that is used for books. The
practice of indexing periodical publications is so well established that one would question a
bib-liography that neglected to present such a record; and yet, while all seem to agree that it
is important to establish the history of an author's peri-odical contributions, few seem to have
asked whether it might not also be important to investigate those publications as thoroughly …
IS NOT CUSTOMARY FOR DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES TO PRESENT periodical publications in the same format, or with the same level of detail, that is used for books. The practice of indexing periodical publications is so well established that one would question a bib-liography that neglected to present such a record; and yet, while all seem to agree that it is important to establish the history of an author's peri-odical contributions, few seem to have asked whether it might not also be important to investigate those publications as thoroughly as we in-vestigate books. G. Thomas Tanselle brings up the matter in" The Arrangement of Descriptive Bibliographies/'1 pointing out that bibliographers rarely explain" why they simply list, rather than describe, contributions to periodicals"(25), and suggesting that bibliographers might" write separate descriptive bibliographies of individual periodicals"(26). But although a few scholars have undertaken serious bibliographical study of periodicals (such as Donald Bond's work on the Spectator and William B. Todd's work on the Gentleman's Magazine, the Examiner and the World), 2 they are exceptions to the rule. The drawbacks of this practice for Victorian writers became apparent to me during my work on a critical edition of George Meredith's short fiction. Although Meredith, like many Victorian authors, frequently published in periodicals, bibliographical studies of Meredith3 and other Victorian writers routinely present periodical publications in enum-
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