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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452091603321

Titolo

Victorian print media [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Andrew King and John Plunkett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-90561-1

0-19-153365-3

1-4294-9863-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (452 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KingAndrew <1957->

PlunkettJohn <1974->

Disciplina

070.1/7/094109034

828.80808

Soggetti

Press - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Popular literature - Great Britain - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Editors' Note; Introduction; I: SETTING THE SCENE; II: THE INFLUENCE OF PRINT; III: THE WORD OF LAW/THE LAW OF THE WORD; IV: PUBLISHING, PRINTING, COMMUNICATION; V: INVESTIGATING THE POPULAR, 1840s-1860s; VI: READING SPACES; VII: AUTHORS, JOURNALISTS, REVIEWERS; VIII: NEWSPAPERS; IX: GRAPHIC MEDIA; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. Victorian Print Media: A Reader consists of edited extracts from nineteenth-century sources which discuss all aspects of the production and circulation of print media. The extracts are organised into themed sections such as authorship and journalism,. reading spaces, and the influence of print. - ;Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremend