LEADER 02552 am 22003733u 450 001 9910311930603321 005 20230621135409.0 010 $a1-78374-561-4 024 7 $a10.11647/OBP.0152 035 $a(CKB)4100000007595556 035 $a(OAPEN)1004283 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5651726 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007595556 100 $a20190306d2018 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 200 12$aA Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900 210 $cOpen Book Publishers$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (478) 311 $a1-78374-559-2 311 $a1-78374-560-6 330 $a"At the heart of Victorian culture was the local weekly newspaper. More popular than books, more widely read than the London papers, the local press was a national phenomenon. This book redraws the Victorian cultural map, shifting our focus away from one centre, London, and towards the many centres of the provinces. It offers a new paradigm in which place, and a sense of place, are vital to the histories of the newspaper, reading and publishing. Hobbs offers new perspectives on the nineteenth century from an enormous yet neglected body of literature: the hundreds of local newspapers published and read across England. He reveals the people, processes and networks behind the publishing, maintaining a unique focus on readers and what they did with the local paper as individuals, families and communities. Case studies and an unusual mix of quantitative and qualitative evidence show that the vast majority of readers preferred the local paper, because it was about them and the places they loved. A Fleet Street in Every Town positions the local paper at the centre of debates on Victorian newspapers, periodicals, reading and publishing. It reorientates our view of the Victorian press away from metropolitan high culture and parliamentary politics, and towards the places where most people lived, loved and read. This is an essential book for anybody interested in nineteenth-century print culture, journalism and reading. 606 $ac 1800 to c 1900$2bicssc 606 $aMedia studies$2bicssc 606 $aPress & journalism$2bicssc 615 7$ac 1800 to c 1900 615 7$aMedia studies 615 7$aPress & journalism 676 $a070.50942090/34 700 $aHobbs$b Andrew$4aut$0898039 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910311930603321 996 $aA Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900$92006376 997 $aUNINA