Subscribing to faith? : the Anglican parish magazine 1859-1929 / Jane Platt, Independent Scholar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Jane, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England--History.

Church of England.

History.

Church of England--Periodicals--History.

Anglican Communion--History.

Anglican Communion.

Periodicals.

Great Britain--Church history.

Great Britain.

Church history.

Anglican Communion--Periodicals--History.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 278 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"This book introduces the reader to a subject which, until now, has been almost totally ignored by scholars. Seeking to change the Cinderella status of parish magazines, the book reveals their importance as a source for the studies of both religion and mass-market publishing. Parish magazines usually contained commercially published 'insets', making them a microcosm of the Anglican Church's role as a conduit for national issues into the local community; yet, despite the propagandist potential and wide circulation of such magazines, their content offered subscribers a diet of anxiety and despair over religious and social change, along with a laissez-faire approach to the effects of commercialism. Suffering from a collapse of confidence and vision, and mired in its internecine wars, the Church of England, 1859-1929, eventually proved unable to utilise the technological advances presented by mass-market publishing to its own advantage"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Inventing the Parish Magazine

2. Erskine Clarke and Parish Magazine

3. 'Cheap as well as good': the Economics of Publishing

4. Editors, Writers and Church Parties, 1871-1918

5. Manly Men and Chivalrous Heroes

6. 'Scribbling Women': Female Authorship of Inset Fiction

7. Parish Magazine Readers

8. Stormy Waters: 'How can the waves the bark o'erwhelm, with Christ the Pilot at the Helm?'

9. The Challenges of Modernity: Scientific Advances and the Great War

10. Anglican Parish Magazines 1919-1929 and Beyond

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

ISBN:

9781137362438

113736243X

OCLC:

903633967