The Novelty of Newspapers

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-536926-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

The Novelty of Newspapers explains why the Victorian novel is best understood alongside the simultaneous development of the news as a commercial commodity read by up to a million readers per day. This study focuses on five of the most important of these narrative conventions-the shipping intelligence, personal advertisement, leading article, interview, and foreign correspondence-in order to show how concretely journalism influenced the novel at this time. Drawing on examples of periodicals from the period, Matthew Rubery reveals how the commercial press arising in nineteenth-century Britain profoundly influenced Mary Braddon, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Anthony Trollope, and many other novelists who all used narrative conventions derived from the press in their fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rubery

Rubery, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments

- Illustrations

- Introduction: The Age of Newspapers

- Newspapers in Different Voices

- A Nation of News Readers

- A Newspaperized World

- PART I: THE FRONT PAGE

- 1.: THE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

- Shipwrecks and Secret Tears from Dickens to Stoker

- The Latest Shipping Intelligence

- Why Victorian Heroines Read the Shipping News

- Shipwreck Spine

- Secret Tears for Ships Lost at Sea

- 2.: THE PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS

- Advertisements, the Agony Column, and Sensation Novels of the 1860s

- The Short History of a Miserable Life

- A Double State of Existence

- The Sensation Novel in Embryo

- PART II: THE INNER PAGES

- 3.: THE LEADING ARTICLE

- The Whispering Conscience in Trollope's Palliser Novels

- A Horror of Newspaper Men

- Thunderbolts from Mount Olympus

- Trollope's Whispering Conscience

- The Promise of Big Type in the Morning

- 4.: THE PERSONAL INTERVIEW

- Wishing to Be Interviewed in Henry James

- Interviewed!

- The Rise of the Interview Society

- James's Overhearing Audience

- The Age of Interviewing

- 5.: THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE

- Conrad's "Wild Story of a Journalist"

- Brains Pulsating to the Rhythm of Journalistic Phrases

- Stanley's Journalism by Warfare

- Kurtz's Letters from Africa

- Conclusion: The Back Page

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and Oregon State University Humanities Center since receiving his PhD from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize. He is the recipient of a number of professional awards including the Joseph Conrad Society's Juliet McLauchlan Essay Prize. His work on nineteenth-century print culture has appeared in English Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Henry James Review, English Language Notes, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. He has also contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture and Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.