Papers for the Millions: The New Journalism in Britain, 1850s to 1914

Author:   Joel H. Wiener
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Edition:   Annotated edition
Volume:   No. 13
ISBN:  

9780313259395


Pages:   347
Publication Date:   11 November 1988
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Format:   Hardback
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This scholarly work deals specifically with the important changes in popular journalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pioneering study in the history of journalism, it is the first volume to focus on the history of the New Journalism in Britain, which is central in the overall history of the modern press. Written by leading scholars representing a variety of disciplines, the fourteen essays provide a careful historical analysis of the transformation that took place in journalism, and the innovations that occurred, such as the greater use of illustrations and photographs, headlines and crossheads, and increased coverage of human interest subjects. The authors take different positions on aspects of the New Journalism, and the book offers a wealth of new information based on original research, as well as lively, interpretive commentary on the nature of change in modern journalism and its relationship to popular culture. The in-depth examination of major subject areas, such as The Beginnings of the New Journalism, The Flowering of the New Journalism, and Subjects and Audiences, dispels the simplistic view of the New Journalism as occurring within a short period of time by showing that the changes took place slowly and had many ramifications. The annotated bibliography includes studies of individual newspapers and biographies of some of the leading journalists.

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Author:   Joel H. Wiener
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Edition:   Annotated edition
Volume:   No. 13
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.555kg
ISBN:  

9780313259395


ISBN 10:   0313259399
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   11 November 1988
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Part I: The Beginnings of the New Journalism The Old Journalism and the New: Forms of Cultural Production in London in the 1880s A Precursor of the New Journalism: Frederick Greenwood of the Pall Mall Gazette How New Was the New Journalism? Fleet Street in the 1880s: The New Journalism Part II: The Flowering of the New Journalism W. T. Stead and Democracy by Journalism Politics and the New Journalism: Lord Esher's Use of the Pall Mall Gazette The Star: Its Role in the Rise of the New Journalism The New Journalism in Wales Part III: Subjects and Audiences Marriage or Celibacy?: A Victorian Dilemma The Philistine and the New: J. A. Spender on Art and Morality The Left-Wing Press and the New Journalism Women's Periodicals and the New Journalism: The Personal Interview Pulling Strings at Printing House Square Part IV: An Assessment Good Journalism in the Era of the New Journalism: The British Press, 1902-1914 Bibliographical Essay Index

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.,. Joel Wiener's 'Bibliographical Essay' appropriately concludes this collection. His review of the literature indicates what has been done and what remains to be done in nineteenth-century newspaper history and unifies the various strands of the New Journalism presented in Papers for the Millions. Indeed, Wiener's review would have been of good use to the work of Linton and Boston. -Albion


These 14 essays are based on the proceedings of a conference held at the City University of New York in 1986 to discuss British journalism from the mid-19th century to WWI. The essays are primarily concerned with the transitional period between the Victorian press and the sensationalism and commercialism that was to come. Mathew Arnold viewed this New Journalism' as untrustworthy and insipid, but the authors add context to expand the boundaries of the form and to suggest positive as well as negative consequences. . . . More than enough detail and new information is presented, however, to interest not only journalism historians but also scholars of the politics, social fabric, and literature of the period. Editor Joel H. Wiener provides an introduction and bibliographical essay. A good addition to recent scholarship such as Lucy Brown's Victorian News and Newspapers that makes a case for closer attention to this period. For graduate students mainly. -Choice . . . This book is simply a reflection of the current state of press history, and it has performed a valuable service in laying out some guidelines for where future research should focus. -Victorian Studies ... Joel Wiener's 'Bibliographical Essay' appropriately concludes this collection. His review of the literature indicates what has been done and what remains to be done in nineteenth-century newspaper history and unifies the various strands of the New Journalism presented in Papers for the Millions. Indeed, Wiener's review would have been of good use to the work of Linton and Boston. -Albion ?. . . This book is simply a reflection of the current state of press history, and it has performed a valuable service in laying out some guidelines for where future research should focus.?-Victorian Studies ?...Joel Wiener's 'Bibliographical Essay' appropriately concludes this collection. His review of the literature indicates what has been done and what remains to be done in nineteenth-century newspaper history and unifies the various strands of the New Journalism presented in Papers for the Millions. Indeed, Wiener's review would have been of good use to the work of Linton and Boston.?-Albion ?These 14 essays are based on the proceedings of a conference held at the City University of New York in 1986 to discuss British journalism from the mid-19th century to WWI. The essays are primarily concerned with the transitional period between the Victorian press and the sensationalism and commercialism that was to come. Mathew Arnold viewed this New Journalism' as untrustworthy and insipid, but the authors add context to expand the boundaries of the form and to suggest positive as well as negative consequences. . . . More than enough detail and new information is presented, however, to interest not only journalism historians but also scholars of the politics, social fabric, and literature of the period. Editor Joel H. Wiener provides an introduction and bibliographical essay. A good addition to recent scholarship such as Lucy Brown's Victorian News and Newspapers that makes a case for closer attention to this period. For graduate students mainly.?-Choice .,. Joel Wiener's 'Bibliographical Essay' appropriately concludes this collection. His review of the literature indicates what has been done and what remains to be done in nineteenth-century newspaper history and unifies the various strands of the New Journalism presented in Papers for the Millions. Indeed, Wiener's review would have been of good use to the work of Linton and Boston. -Albion


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JOEL H. WIENER, Professor of History at the City College of New York, has published widely on nineteenth-century British history. His books include The War of the Unstamped (1969), A Descriptive Finding List of Unstamped British Periodicals (1970), and Radicalism and Freethought in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1983).

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