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Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street - The Print Culture of a Victorian Street (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street - The Print Culture of a Victorian Street (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers
and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street
stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853,
Household Words, Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch,
the Athenaeum, the Spectator, the Morning Post, and the serial
edition of London Labour and the London Poor, to name a few, were
all published from this short street off the Strand. Mary L.
Shannon identifies, for the first time, the close proximity of the
offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds, and Henry Mayhew,
examining the ramifications for the individual authors and for
nineteenth-century publishing. What are the implications of Charles
Dickens, his arch-competitor the radical publisher G.W.M. Reynolds,
and Henry Mayhew being such close neighbours? Given that London was
capital of more than Britain alone, what connections does
Wellington Street reveal between London print networks and the
print culture and networks of the wider empire? How might the
editors' experiences make us rethink the ways in which they and
others addressed their anonymous readers as 'friends', as if they
were part of their immediate social network? As Shannon shows,
readers in the London of the 1840s and '50s, despite advances in
literacy, print technology, and communications, were not simply an
'imagined community' of individuals who read in silent privacy, but
active members of an imagined network that punctured the anonymity
of the teeming city and even the empire.
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