Journalism History

A Narrative History of the American Press provides an overview of the events, institutions, and people who have shaped the press, from the creation of the First Amendment to today...

Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch, and the serial edition of London Labour and the London Poor were all published from Wellington Street off the Strand, which housed the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds and Henry Mayhew. Shannon exami..

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake shows how Sala’s personal style and innovations in form influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake’s book expands our understanding of one of the more prominent and interesting journalists and personaliti..

This is an interdisciplinary study of the noted British newspaper proprietor, publisher and editor, George Newnes, who was a key figure of the so-called New Journalism. The author examines seven of Newnes’s most successful periodicals-including Tit-Bits (1881), The Strand Magazine (1891), and The C..

In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. The unique form and materiality of newspapers, and their grounding in a particular time and place, provide challenges for researchers and digital resource creators alike. This book..

In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. The unique form and materiality of newspapers, and their grounding in a particular time and place, provide challenges for researchers and digital resource creators alike. This book..

This book examines the various ways in which journalism uses history and historical sources in order to better understand the relationships between journalists, historians and journalism scholars. It was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Practice...

This book examines the various ways in which journalism uses history and historical sources in order to better understand the relationships between journalists, historians and journalism scholars. It was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Practice...

Building on recent studies of the Romantic public sphere, Alex Benchimol provides a new reading of the period's intellectual politics based on a historically informed examination of its spaces of cultural production and modes of intellectual practice. Benchimol traces the development of social criti..

Building on recent studies of the Romantic public sphere, Alex Benchimol provides a new reading of the period's intellectual politics based on a historically informed examination of its spaces of cultural production and modes of intellectual practice. Benchimol traces the development of social criti..

In the first study to show that nineteenth-century working-class writers both resisted and contributed to radical transformations in French popular culture, Bettina R. Lerner mines the archives to examine newspapers, poetry, and memoirs of the 1830s and 40s. Far from being imitations of Romantic mod..

James Joyce's Finnegans Wake grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. In this publication history, Dirk Van Hulle examines the interaction between the private composition process and the public life of Joyce's 'Work in Progress', from the creation of the separate sections throug..