New Book! The Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries
Along with her co-editors, Isabelle Richet is delighted to announce the publication of The Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914, co-edited by Diana Cooper-Richet and Isabelle Richet, with Jennifer Hayward and Michelle Prain-Brice (Edinburgh UP, 2025). Part of Edinburgh UP’s “History of the British Press” series, the volume brings together a team of international scholars to offer the first comprehensive study of the English-language press published in non-anglophone countries, including those in continental Europe, the Levant, the Mediterranean and Canary Islands, Asia, and Latin America.
The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to highlight the socio-cultural, economic and technological conditions for the emergence of this press, focusing on on the journalists’ transnational trajectories and transcultural competencies. In doing so, it illustrates the acceleration of transnational journalistic exchanges and the growing diversity of media culture in the long nineteenth century.
Members of RSVP will be particularly interested to discover a hitherto largely ignored corpus of non-anglophone periodical literature, providing a new understanding of the circulation of journalistic models and the globalisation of British media culture.
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About the Editorial Team
Diana Cooper-Richet is Senior Researcher at the Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés 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, no. 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 Révolution à nos jours (2018).
Isabelle Richet is Professor Emerita at Université Paris Cité 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 are “Standing on the edge of two cultural worlds: The English-Language Press in Italy,” Media History, 28, no. 2 (Spring 2022); “English-Language Periodicals and Reading Rooms in Nineteenth-Century Italy as Spaces of Intercultural Contact and Exchange,” Cultural History 10, no. 2 (2021); and Women, Antifascism and Mussolini’s Italy: The Life of Marion Cave Rosselli (2018).
Jennifer Hayward is Professor of English and Global Media and Digital Studies at the College of Wooster, USA. She is co-director of the Anglophone Chile Project, a digital archive of the English Press in nineteenth-century Chile and has published widely on the British in nineteenth-century Latin America.
Michelle Prain-Brice is Professor of Literature at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez´s 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 nineteenth-century Chile. Her recent publications include: “The Valparaiso (Chile) Anglophone Periodical Press: Voices from the Borders of Empire,” Journal of European Periodical Studies 7, no. 1 (2021); “Imagining the Araucanians in nineteenth century British and Chilean Press,” Victorian Periodicals Review 54, no. 3 (2021).
