The Edinburgh history of the British and Irish press. Volume 2, Expansion and evolution, 1800-1900 / edited by David Finkelstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finkelstein, David, 1964- editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Press--Ireland--History--19th century.

British newspapers--History--19th century.

Irish newspapers--History--19th century.

British periodicals--History--19th century.

Irish periodicals--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 849 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

History of the British and Irish press

Expansion and evolution, 1800-1900

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This is a collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history during a key period of change and development.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Contributor Biographies

Introduction

PART I: Press and Periodical Economics

1. The Economics of Press and Periodical Production

PART II: Production and Distribution

2. Production

3. The Evolution of Image-Making Industries and the Mid- to Late Victorian Press

PART III: Readership and Distribution

4. Readership and Distribution

PART IV: Identities and Communities

5. Cultural Agents and Contexts: The Professionalisation of Journalism

PART V: Legal Frameworks

6. Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century

PART VI: Themed Chapters

7. The English-Language Press in Continental Europe

8. Transnational Exchanges

9. Literary and Review Journalism

10. ‘One language is quite sufficient for the mass’: Metropolitan Journalism, the British State and the ‘Vernacular’ Periodical Press in Wales, 1840–1914

11. The Scottish Gaelic Press

12. The Irish-Language Press: ‘A tender plant at the best of times’?

13. The Nineteenth-Century Denominational Press

14. Comics, Cartoons and the Illustrated Press

15. The Satirical Press

16. The Medical Press and Its Public

17. Science and the Press

18. The Business Press

19. The Press and Radical Expression: Structure and Dissemination

20. The Political Press

21. The Trade and Professional Press

22. The Leisure and Hobby Press

23. The Sporting Press

24. The Children’s Press

25. The Women’s Press

26. The Provincial, Local and Regional Press

Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1800–1900

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474424905

1-3995-0217-4

1-4744-2490-2

OCLC:

1312727254