W.M.Thackery and the Mediated Text: Writing for Periodicals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781138713420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Richard Pearson

Opis

This title was first published in 2000:  Thackeray's "minor writings" remain caught in a debate about what constitutes "literature" and whether magazine writing and journalism might be construed as such.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Investing in the National Standard, representing 'Belles-Lettres', 2. Echoes and Narcissisms: repetitions and structures of self across the periodical lines - signature and persona in the Paris Literary Gazette and Fraser's Magazine, 3. The foreign correspondent: writing across borders in The Constitutional and The Adventures of Philip, 4. Journalistic metamorphoses: women, sensationalism, and periodical fiction - Catherine: A Story and The Ravenswing in Fraser's Magazine, 5. Confronting the French: The Paris Sketch-Book and travelling French letters, 6. The public and the press: journalistic authority, self-advertising, and the periodical commodity in social essays for Fraser's Magazine and Punch, 7. Deconstructing the press: Punch, the journalistic persona, and the contributor of 'Fat', 8. Mediahood and manhood in Pendermis, 9. Warring spirits: Comhill’s 'Notch on the Axe' and Dickens' sensational All the Year Round, Appendix 1 : Three contributions to the Paris Literary Gazette, 1835, Appendix 2: Thackeray's contributions to the Original, 1832, Appendix 3: Thackeray's contributions to the National Standard, 1833-4, Selected Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Richard Pearson