1st Edition
George Augustus Sala and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press The Personal Style of a Public Writer
By Peter Blake
Copyright 2015
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Sala’s personal style, along with his innovations in form, influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake places Sala at the centre of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals and examines his prolific contributions to newspapers and periodicals in the context of contemporary debates... Read more
A visual apprenticeship. Tales of Two Cities: part 1 - London. Tales of Two Cities: part 2 - Paris. Interlude - a Russian digression. Novelist and man of letters. 'There really is a world outside Fleet Street': completing the journalistic education: Sala as special correspondent. 'The flogging to be efficacious must be severe': Sala and flagellant pornography.
Biography
Peter Blake is a lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.
