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Journalism, Literature and Modernity : From Hazlitt to Modernism / Kate Campbell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748621026
  • 9781474465601
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction On Perceptions of Journalism -- 1. Hazlitt, Speech and Writing -- 2. Dickens’s Later Journalism -- 3. Platform, Performance and Payment in Henry Mayhew’s -- 4. Hybrid Journalism: Women and the Progressive Fortnightly -- 5. Matthew Arnold and Publicity: A Modern Critic as Journalist -- 6. ‘The Profession of Letters’: Walter Pater and Greek Studies -- 7. Vortex Marsden: A Little Magazine and the Making of Modernity -- 8. The Making of a Modern Woman Writer: Rebecca West’s Journalism, 1911-1930 -- 9. ‘Monarch of the Drab World’: Virginia Woolfs Figuring of Journalism as Abject -- 10. The Law of Criticism: Laura Riding’s Editorship of Epilogue -- Index
Summary: GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748621026);Reviews of the hardback edition:'A meticulously detailed and thought-provoking look at Grub Street.'Times Literary Supplement'All the essays have insightful things to say about their individual authors as writers for the periodical press.'Media History'An effective geneaology of modern journalism from the early nineteenth century through to the 1930s.'Sally Ledger, Birkbeck CollegeJournalism has often been disregarded or represented as 'other' by literary critics and authors. The sense of its difference from literature has been heightened by its identification with daily newspaper journalism and reporting. Yet 'journalism' in its broadest sense refers to all writing in public journals, spanning both high and popular culture. It has been central to experiences of modernity, making its dismissal problematic.This book considers journalism in all its diversity, examining writing in journals across the cultural spectrum including literary journals, magazines and daily newspapers. Presenting a variety of critical approaches, the authors explore journalism's importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernism. They offer readings of established writers, critics and journalists:William HazlittCharles DickensHenry MayhewMatthew ArnoldWalter PaterDora MarsdenRebecca WestVirginia WoolfLaura RidingThis book challenges received ideas of journalism's significance in literary and cultural history, as well as perceptions of modernity and modernism.Key FeaturesConsiders journalism in both its 'high' and 'low' cultural formsExplores journalism's importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernismIncludes chapters on Hazlitt, Dickens, Arnold and Woolf"
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction On Perceptions of Journalism -- 1. Hazlitt, Speech and Writing -- 2. Dickens’s Later Journalism -- 3. Platform, Performance and Payment in Henry Mayhew’s -- 4. Hybrid Journalism: Women and the Progressive Fortnightly -- 5. Matthew Arnold and Publicity: A Modern Critic as Journalist -- 6. ‘The Profession of Letters’: Walter Pater and Greek Studies -- 7. Vortex Marsden: A Little Magazine and the Making of Modernity -- 8. The Making of a Modern Woman Writer: Rebecca West’s Journalism, 1911-1930 -- 9. ‘Monarch of the Drab World’: Virginia Woolfs Figuring of Journalism as Abject -- 10. The Law of Criticism: Laura Riding’s Editorship of Epilogue -- Index

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748621026);Reviews of the hardback edition:'A meticulously detailed and thought-provoking look at Grub Street.'Times Literary Supplement'All the essays have insightful things to say about their individual authors as writers for the periodical press.'Media History'An effective geneaology of modern journalism from the early nineteenth century through to the 1930s.'Sally Ledger, Birkbeck CollegeJournalism has often been disregarded or represented as 'other' by literary critics and authors. The sense of its difference from literature has been heightened by its identification with daily newspaper journalism and reporting. Yet 'journalism' in its broadest sense refers to all writing in public journals, spanning both high and popular culture. It has been central to experiences of modernity, making its dismissal problematic.This book considers journalism in all its diversity, examining writing in journals across the cultural spectrum including literary journals, magazines and daily newspapers. Presenting a variety of critical approaches, the authors explore journalism's importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernism. They offer readings of established writers, critics and journalists:William HazlittCharles DickensHenry MayhewMatthew ArnoldWalter PaterDora MarsdenRebecca WestVirginia WoolfLaura RidingThis book challenges received ideas of journalism's significance in literary and cultural history, as well as perceptions of modernity and modernism.Key FeaturesConsiders journalism in both its 'high' and 'low' cultural formsExplores journalism's importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernismIncludes chapters on Hazlitt, Dickens, Arnold and Woolf"

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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