Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.

Joanne Shattock (Edited by)

9781107085732, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 March 2017

426 pages, 22 b/w illus. 4 tables
23 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.82 kg

'… a hugely welcome contribution to the study of the 19th-century press.' Sarah Lonsdale, Journalism

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter [WCS], Literature: history & criticism [DS], Poetry [DC], Literature & literary studies [D]