Media, entertainment, information and communication industries

Through an investigation of the reportage in nineteenth-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question 'Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to "e;killing remarks,"e; rhetoric that helped the press, government and public opinion distance themselves from the Irish Famine?

Through an investigation of the reportage in nineteenth-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question 'Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to "e;killing remarks,"e; rhetoric that helped the press, government and public opinion distance themselves from the Irish Famine?

In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership.

In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership.

This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of options available to him.

This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of options available to him.

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Grub Street was a real place, a place of poverty and vice.

Grub Street was a real place, a place of poverty and vice.

This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the child's increasing prominence in eighteenth-century discourse and the establishment of the category of age as a marker of social distinction alongside race, class and gender.

This innovative collection of essays re-examines conventional ideas of the history of childhood, exploring the child's increasing prominence in eighteenth-century discourse and the establishment of the category of age as a marker of social distinction alongside race, class and gender.

First-Person Anonymous revises previous histories of Victorian women's writing by examining the importance of both anonymous periodical journalism and signed book authorship in women's literary careers.

First-Person Anonymous revises previous histories of Victorian women's writing by examining the importance of both anonymous periodical journalism and signed book authorship in women's literary careers.

Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja MAller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints.

Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja MAller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints.

This volume of essays provides a selection of leading contemporary scholarship which situates Dickens in a global perspective.

Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and wide-spread concern to the early modern reader.

Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and wide-spread concern to the early modern reader.

This is a study of the noted newspaper proprietor, publisher and editor, George Newnes and his involvement in the so-called New Journalism in Britain from 1880 to 1910.

This is a study of the noted newspaper proprietor, publisher and editor, George Newnes and his involvement in the so-called New Journalism in Britain from 1880 to 1910.

This volume of essays provides a selection of leading contemporary scholarship which situates Dickens in a global perspective.

Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O.

Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O.

Little magazines made modernism happen.

Little magazines made modernism happen.

Macmillan's Magazine has long been recognized as one of the most significant of the many British literary/intellectual periodicals that flourished in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Macmillan's Magazine has long been recognized as one of the most significant of the many British literary/intellectual periodicals that flourished in the second half of the nineteenth century.

British modernism came of age at a time of great cultural anxiety about the state of journalism.

British modernism came of age at a time of great cultural anxiety about the state of journalism.

Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture.

Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture.

The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties.

The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties.

National Geographic magazine is probably the most visible and popular expression of geography in the USA.

National Geographic magazine is probably the most visible and popular expression of geography in the USA.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of concentrated study and debate.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of concentrated study and debate.

James Mussell reads nineteenth-century scientific debates in light of recent theoretical discussions of scientific writing to propose a new methodology for understanding the periodical press in terms of its movements in time and space.

James Mussell reads nineteenth-century scientific debates in light of recent theoretical discussions of scientific writing to propose a new methodology for understanding the periodical press in terms of its movements in time and space.

Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media.

Taking up the understudied relationship between the cultural history of childhood and media studies, this volume traces twentieth-century migrations of the child-savage analogy from colonial into postcolonial discourse across a wide range of old and new media.

The world of work is going through an unprecedented revival driven by new technologies.

The world of work is going through an unprecedented revival driven by new technologies.

Modern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual presence at events that occur far away.

Modern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual presence at events that occur far away.

What are the current problems, pressures and opportunities facing journalists in advanced democratic societies?

What are the current problems, pressures and opportunities facing journalists in advanced democratic societies?

Suzanne Churchill's well-researched and superbly crafted study is the first book-length treatment of Others, an important and neglected little magazine that served as a laboratory for modernist poetic experimentation.

Suzanne Churchill's well-researched and superbly crafted study is the first book-length treatment of Others, an important and neglected little magazine that served as a laboratory for modernist poetic experimentation.