Visions of the press in Britain, 1850-1950 / Mark Hampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hampton, Mark, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Press--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Press.

Press--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Journalism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Journalism.

History.

Great Britain.

Journalism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]

Summary:

Historians recognize the cultural centrality of the newspaper press in Britain, yet very little has been published regarding competing conceptions of the press and its proper role in British society. In Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950, Mark Hampton surveys a diversity of sources--Parliamentary speeches and commissions, books, pamphlets, periodicals and select private correspondence--in order to identify how governmental elites, the educated public, professional journalists, and industry moguls characterized the political and cultural function of the press, Hampton demonstrates that British theories of the press were intimately tied to definitions of the public and the emergence of mass democracy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-213) and index.

ISBN:

0252029461

OCLC:

54529085