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.
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.
Matthew Rubery is a Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the editor or coeditor of Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (Routledge, 2011) and Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism (Broadview, 2012).
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CONTENTS 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
CONTENTS 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
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