This annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British
periodicals, complete with a detailed subject index, reveals how
Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the
origins and contemporary character of the domestic, imperial and
foreign press. Drawn from a wide range of publications that
represent diverse political, economic, religious, social and
literary views, this book contains over 4,500 entries, and features
extracts from over 40 nineteenth-century periodicals.
The featured articles discuss both the prior and the
contemporary press, from annuals to dailies, and examine topics
such as circulation, content, audience and personnel. These
nineteenth-century commentaries offer both a thorough and
influential analysis of their journalistic milieu, presenting
statistics on sales and descriptions of advertising, passing
judgment on space allocations, pinpointing different readerships,
and identifying individuals who engaged with the press either
exclusively or occasionally.
The essays also examine the impact of outside forces including
technology, taxation, capitalism and compulsory education whilst
assessments of the press abroad add the further considerations of
geography, ethnicity, resources and restraints to the collective
analysis. Most importantly, the bibliography demonstrates that
columnists routinely articulated ideas about the purpose of the
press, yet rarely recognized the illogic of prioritizing public
good and private profit simultaneously. The volume thus highlights
implicitly a universal characteristic of journalism: its fractious,
ambiguous, conflicting behavior an endemic trait that appears to
have survived well into the twenty-first century."
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