Nineteenth-century media and the construction of identities /

Nineteenth-century media and the construction of identities / edited by Laurel Brake, Bill Bell, and David Finkelstein.

This volume represents salient development in the field of 19th century media history. Taking as its theme the way the media serve to define identities, national, ethnic and textual, it investigates serial journals in the UK, France and the USA.

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Other Authors: Brake, Laurel, 1941-, Bell, Bill, 1961-, Finkelstein, David, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave, 2000.
Subjects:
English periodicals > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • George Newnes and the "loyal Tit-Bitites" : editorial identity and textual interaction in Tit-bits / Kate Jackson
  • "A simulacrum of power" : intimacy and abstraction in the rhetoric of the new journalism / Richard Salmon
  • Journalistic discourses and constructions of modern knowledge / Kate Campbell
  • A centre that would not hold : annuals and cultural democracy / Margaret Linley
  • A paradigm of reading the Victorian penny weekly : education of the gaze and The London journal / Andrew King
  • From street ballad to penny magazine : "March of intellect in the butchering line" / Michael Hancher
  • "Penny" wise, "penny" foolish? Popular periodicals and the "march of intellect" in the 1820s and 1830s / Brian E. Maidment
  • "Women in conference" : reading the correspondence columns in Woman, 1890-1910 / Lynne Warren
  • Dickens as serial author : a case of multiple identities / Robert L. Patten
  • Authorship, gender, and power in Victorian culture : Harriet Martineau and the periodical press / Alexis Easley
  • Work for women : Margaret Oliphant's journalism / Joanne Shattock
  • Israel Zangwill's early journalism and the formation of an Anglo-Jewish literary identity / Meri-Jane Rochelson
  • America's first feminist magazine : transforming the popular to the political / Amy Beth Aronson
  • Coming apart : the British newspaper press and the divorce court / Anne Humpherys
  • Saint Pauls magazine and the project of masculinity / Mark W. Turner
  • The agony aunt, the romancing uncle, and the family of empire : defining the sixpenny reading public in the 1890s / Margaret Beetham
  • "Gay discourse" and The artist and journal of home culture / Laurel Brake
  • Bad press : Thomas Campbell Foster and British reportage on the Irish famine, 1845-1849 / Leslie Williams
  • The nineteenth-century media and Welsh identity / Aled Jones
  • "Long and intimate connections" : constructing a Scottish identity for Blackwood's magazine / David Finkelstein
  • Making news, making readers : the creation of the modern newspaper public in nineteenth-century France / Dean de la Motte
  • The virtual reading communities of the London journal, the New York ledger, and the Australian journal / Toni Johnson-Woods.

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