THIS
COLLECTION of important new research in nineteenth-century
media history represents some salient, recent developments
in the field. Based on a CHB conference, it takes as
its theme the way the media serve to define identities
- national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual
- the volume addresses serials in the UK, the US, and
Australia. High culture rubs shoulders with the popular
press, text with image, and feminist periodicals with
masculine, gay, and domestic serials. Theory and history
combine in research by scholars of international repute.
Contents:
Introduction;
B.Bell, L.Brake & D.Finkelstein
DISCOURSES OF
JOURNALISM
George Newnes
and the 'Loyal Tit-Bitites': Editorial Identity and
Textual Interaction in Tit-Bits (K.Jackson);
'A Simulacrum of Power': Intimacy and Abstraction in
the Rhetoric of the New Journalism (R.Salmon); Journalistic
Discourses and Constructions of Modern Knowledge (K.Campbell);
A Centre that Would not Hold: Annuals and Cultural Democracy
(M.Linley).
THE READER IN
TEXT AND IMAGE
A Paradigm of
Reading the Victorian Penny Weekly: Education of the
Gaze and The London Journal (A.King); From
Street Ballad to Penny Magazine: 'March of Intellect
in the Butchering Line' (M.Hancher); 'Penny' Wise, 'Penny'
Foolish? Popular Periodicals and the 'March of Intellect'
in the 1820s and 1830s (B.E.Maidment); 'Women in Conference':
Reading the Correspondence Columns in Woman
1890-1910 (L.Warren)
WRITERS/AUTHORS/JOURNALISTS
Dickens as Serial
Author: A Case of Multiple Identities; R.L.Patten; Authorship,
Gender and Power in Victorian Culture: Harriet Martineau
and the Periodical Press; A.Easley; Work for Women:
Margaret Oliphant's Journalism; J.Shattock; Israel Zangwill's
Early Journalism and the Formation of an Anglo-Jewish
Literary Identity; M.J.Rochelson
NEGOTIATING GENDER
America's First
Feminine Magazine: Transforming the Popular to the Political
(A.B.Aronson); Coming Apart: The British Newspaper Press
and the Divorce Court (A.Humphreys); Saint Pauls
Magazine and the Project of Masculinity (M.W.Turner);
The Agony Aunt, the Romancing Uncle and the Family of
Empire: Defining the Sixpenny Reading Public in the
1890s (M.Beetham); 'Gay Discourse' and The Artist
and the Journal of Home Culture (L.Brake)
NATIONAL AND
ETHNIC IDENTITY
Bad Press: Thomas
Campbell Foster and British Reportage on the Irish Famine
1845-1849 (L.Williams); The Nineteenth Century Media
and Welsh Identity (A.Jones); 'Long and Intimate Connections':
Constructing a Scottish Identity for Blackwood's
Magazine (D.Finkelstein); Making News, Making Readers:
The Creation of the Modern Newspaper Public in Nineteenth-Century
France (D.de la Motte); The Virtual Reading Communities
of the London Journal, the New York Ledger
and the Australian Journal (T.Johnson-Woods)
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