Potterism (Paperback)

Rose Macaulay's 1920 satire on British journalism and the newspaper industry will be back in print in the UK for the first time in seventy years. It will be published alongside a new collection of her pacifist writing from 1916 to 1945, Non-Combatants and Others: Writings Against War (ISBN 9781912766307). Potterism is about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled to balance the truth and what would sell, during the First World War and into the 1920s. When Jane and Johnny Potter are at Oxford they learn to despise their father's popular newspapers, though they still end up working for the family business. But Jane is greedy, and wants more than society will let her have. Mrs Potter is a well-known romantic novelist, whose cheap novelettes appear in the shop-girls' magazines. She has become unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and her success gives her an unhealthy estimation of her own influence. When she visits a medium to try to find the truth about the murder of her son-in-law, she wreaks terrible damage. Arthur Gideon works for Mr Potter as an editor. He respects his employer's honesty while he despises the populist newspapers he has to produce. His turbulent campaigning spirit, and his furious resistance to anti-Semitic attacks, make him unpopular, and becomes an unwitting target of malice.

General

Imprint:	Hand Held Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Handheld Classics, 16
Release date:	August 2020
Authors:	Rose Macaulay
Dimensions:	135 x 215 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	247
ISBN-13:	978-1-912766-33-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Press & journalism Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Publishing industry
LSN:	1-912766-33-7
Barcode:	9781912766338

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