Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays range from studies of periodical formats in the nineteenth century - reviews, magazines and newspapers - to accounts of individual journalists, many of them eminent writers of the day. The uneasy relationship between the new 'profession' of journalism and the evolving profession of authorship is investigated, as is the impact of technological innovations, such as the telegraph, the typewriter and new processes of illustration. Contributors go on to consider the transnational and global dimensions of the British press and its impact in the rest of the world. As digitisation of historical media opens up new avenues of research, the collection reveals the centrality of the press to our understanding of the nineteenth century.
- Illustrates the richness and scope of current research on nineteenth-century print media, and the research potential offered by digitisation
- Offers insights into the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain
- Provides examples of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals
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'… a hugely welcome contribution to the study of the 19th-century press.' Sarah Lonsdale, Journalism
Product details
July 2019Paperback
9781107449961
426 pages
229 × 149 × 22 mm
0.6kg
22 b/w illus. 4 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Joanne Shattock
- Part I. Periodicals, Genres and the Production of Print:
- 2. Beyond the 'great index': digital resources and actual copies James Mussell
- 3. The magazine and literary culture David Stewart
- 4. Periodical formats: the changing review Laurel Brake
- 5. Gendered production: annuals and gift books Barbara Onslow
- 6. Graphic satire, caricature, comic illustration and the radical press, 1820–45 Brian Maidment
- 7. Illustration Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
- 8. Periodical poetry Linda H. Peterson
- Part II. The Press and the Public:
- 9. The press and the law Martin Hewitt
- 10. 'Doing the graphic': Victorian special correspondence Catherine Waters
- 11. Reporting the Great Exhibition Geoffrey Cantor
- Part III. The 'Globalisation' of the Nineteenth-Century Press:
- 12. Colonial networks and the periodical marketplace Mary L. Shannon
- 13. Continental currents: Paris and London Juliette Atkinson
- 14. The newspaper and the periodical press in Colonial India Deeptanil Ray and Abhijit Gupta
- 15. British and American newspaper journalism in the nineteenth century Joel Wiener
- 16. Journalism and Empire in an English-reading world: the Review of Reviews Simon J. Potter
- Part IV. Journalists and Journalism:
- 17. Dickens and the middle-class weekly John Drew
- 18. Harriet Martineau: women, work and mid-Victorian journalism Iain Crawford
- 19. Wilkie Collins and the discovery of an 'unknown public' Graham Law
- 20. Margaret Oliphant and the Blackwood 'Brand' Joanne Shattock
- 21. Marian Evans the reviewer Fionnuala Dillane
- 22. Oscar Wilde, new journalist John Stokes and Mark W. Turner.
