George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880-1910 : Culture and Profit

ISBN-13: 9780754603177 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 293 str.

Kate Jackson

Opis

This book brings a vast amount of new evidence to bear upon issues which currently preoccupy the scholarly community. It explores the boundaries between history, literary criticism, cultural and media studies and intellectual biography, embracing the debates surrounding the commercialization of culture and concerning the relative importance of production versus reception in the process by which cultural texts create meaning. It is informed by recent developments in the field of periodical research which have produced a model of the periodical text as a culturally embedded and uniquely interactive medium. The subject of the study is George Newnes and his involvement in the "New Journalism" in Britain in the late 19th century. It begins with a survey of the historiography and methodology of periodical research and examines the relevant biographical context. Then it goes on to analyze eight of Newnes' most successful periodicals in terms of his own role in their conception and development, the phase of journalistic evolution to which they belonged, and the cultural environment of which they were a constitutent part.

Recenzje

'Jackson's work makes a serious contribution to our knowledge of turn-of-the-century British magazine publishing and reading culture, and how these Newnes publications served their readers.' H-Net Reviews 'Kate Jackson has written an extraordinarily rich and detailed history of culture in Britain of the 1880s and 1890s, full of vigorous individual characters, profound group identities of gender, class, and nation... Apart from a 1911 biography by a colleague, this is the first full-length study of Newnes, and it fills an important gap in Victorian periodical research. Specialists will value the book for its thorough coverage of a central proprietor and his major titles; technical matters such as illustrations and print technology are dealt with.' Victorian Periodicals Review 'Impressive theoretical analyses are liberally sprinkled throughout the book... [Kate Jackson's] writing is of a high quality and her conclusions are generally persuasive. Newnes, himself a contradictory figure as both liberal imperialist and moralizing populist, has been expertly resurrected by Jackson and shown to be central to his age.' Albion 'Kate Jackson has written an important book, which deserves to be widely read. Given the variety of historiographical and methodological lenses that she uses to decode these periodicals Jackson's study will also be of interest to historians working in the fields of popular politics, book history, empire, women's and gender history, and youth culture.' History '... a thought-provoking book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of late Victorian and Edwardian culture... Both Ashgate and the general editors of The Nineteenth Century Series are to be congratulated for this fine addition to the series.' Australasian Victorian Studies Journals

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part I: The New Journalism: A Liberal Profession or a Branch of Business?: Securing the suffrage of the crowd: tit-bitites and millionaires: Tit-Bits (1881) and The Million (1892); A national institution: The Strand Magazine (1891); Part II: Liberalism and Imperialism: Developing Formats and Expanding Horizons: A bold stroke of mingled business and benevolence: The Westminster Gazette (1893); Expanding human consciousness across the globe: The Wide World Magazine (1898); Part III: Specialisation and Diversification: Targeting Niche Audiences and Exploiting a Segmented Market: Femininity, consumption, class and culture in the Ladies’ Paper: The Ladies’ Field (1898); Respectable anxieties, role-models and readers: The Captain (1899); Conclusion; George Newness: Biographical Summary; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Kate Jackson