1st Edition
W.M.Thackery and the Mediated Text Writing for Periodicals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
By Richard Pearson
Copyright 2000
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: Thackeray's "minor writings" remain caught in a debate about what constitutes "literature" and whether magazine writing and journalism might be construed as such. This debate was present during the inception of the mass periodical press in the 1830s when Thackeray began his career and forms part of the context of, reasoning within, and techniques of... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Investing in the National Standard, representing ’Belles-Lettres', 2. Echoes and Narcissisms: repetitions and structures of self across the periodical lines - signature and persona in the Paris Literary Gazette and Fraser's Magazine, 3. The foreign correspondent: writing across borders in The Constitutional and The Adventures of Philip, 4. Journalistic metamorphoses: women, sensationalism, and periodical fiction - Catherine: A Story and The Ravenswing in Fraser's Magazine, 5. Confronting the French: The Paris Sketch-Book and travelling French letters, 6. The public and the press: journalistic authority, self-advertising, and the periodical commodity in social essays for Fraser's Magazine and Punch, 7. Deconstructing the press: Punch, the journalistic persona, and the contributor of'Fat', 8. Mediahood and manhood in Pendermis, 9. Warring spirits: Comhill’s 'Notch on the Axe' and Dickens' sensational All the Year Round, Appendix 1 : Three contributions to the Paris Literary Gazette, 1835, Appendix 2: Thackeray's contributions to the Original, 1832, Appendix 3: Thackeray's contributions to the National Standard, 1833-4, Selected Bibliography, Index
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Pearson, Richard
