Introduction Christina Fuhrmann and Alison Mero I. The Interdependence of Print and Opera 1. Peter Horton, ??Mr Hawes is Mr Hawes?: Opera and Music Publishing in early Nineteenth-Century London? 2. Christina Fuhrmann, ?Giovanni in Print? II. Shaping a Public Persona 3. Jennifer Hall-Witt, ?Authoring the Managerial Memoir: Print Culture and John Ebers?s Seven Years of the King ?s Theatre (1828)? 4. Matildie Wium, ??Domestic Affliction? and a ?Relaxed Throat?: Reporting on the Tribulations of Mary Shaw? III. Shaping National Identity 5.

Jennifer Oates, ?The ?Failure? of Provincial Opera: Nineteenth-Century Opera and Print Culture in Edinburgh? 6. Timothy Love, ?Opera Stage as Cultural Battlefield: Opera in Nineteenth-Century Ireland? 7. Maria McHale, ?Opera in Dublin in the Long Nineteenth Century: Identity, Nationalism, and Internationalism? IV. Shaping Taste 8. Michelle Meinhart, ?A ?Cosy Corner Chat? about Opera: Fashioning New Femininities in The Gentlewoman and The Lady , 1885?1914? 9. Charles McGuire, ?Wagner, the British Press, and Taste Education at the British Musical Festival, 1883?1914? V. Operatic Literature, Literary Opera 10. Julia Grella O?Connell, ?Decadence, Literary Wagnerism, and Victorian Religious Conversion in Popular Print Culture: Two Novels by George Moore? 11.

James Grande, ?Music and Magazines: Dissenting from Opera in the Print Public Sphere? 12. Phyllis Weliver, ?Wanting More: Oliver Twist as Beggar?s Opera? Afterword Leanne Langley.