Providing a collection of E.S. Dallas's work, this volume explores the significance of the Scottish writer’s practical and theoretical contributions to both the criticism and journalism of the mid-nineteenth century, as well as offering an edited selection of Dallas’s writings in the Victorian press. This book provides a comprehensive listing of around 250 contributions to other periodicals, and again offer a generous edited selection of around 40 articles that are representative of this body of work as a whole.
The source materials were published between the summer of 1850, just after Dallas left Edinburgh University, and early 1881 when a posthumous article appeared two years after his death; they appeared in periodicals issued daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and even annually, in both Edinburgh and London; and generically, they range from book reviews both literary and non-literary, coverage of theatrical and other performances, articles on a cornucopia of social, cultural and philosophical issues, and reports from Paris as special correspondent both during and after the Franco-Prussian War.

Graham Law, Emeritus Professor in Media History, Waseda University, Japan. His previous publications include Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press (2000), editor of many Victorian novels including David Pae, Lucy the Factory Girl (2002) and joint-editor of The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins Letters (2018).

Jenny Bourne Taylor, Professor Emerita in Victorian Literature, University of Sussex, UK. Her previous publications include In the Secret Theatre of Home (1988), editor of Wilkie Collins, The Law and the Lady (1992) and joint-editor with John Kucich of Oxford History of the Novel in English: Vol. 3 1820-1880 (2012).