George Augustus Sala and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: The Personal Style of a Public Writer

ISBN-13: 9780367879990 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 296 str.

Sir Peter Blake

Opis

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake shows how Sala’s personal style and innovations in form influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake’s book expands our understanding of one of the more prominent and interesting journalists and personalities of the nineteenth century, while also shedding

Spis treści

A visual apprenticeship.  Tales of Two Cities: part 1 - London. Tales of Two Cities: part 2 - Paris.  Interlude - a Russian digression.  Novelist and man of letters.  'There really is a world outside Fleet Street': completing the journalistic education: Sala as special correspondent.  'The flogging to be efficacious must be severe': Sala and flagellant pornography.

O autorze

Peter Blake is a lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.