Work and the nineteenth-century press : living work for living people / Andrew King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British newspapers.

British periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Extending the limits of the award-winning Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers (2016) and its companion volume (and also award-winning) Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press: Case Studies (2017), Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for Living People advances our knowledge of how our identities have become inextricably defined by work. The collection's innovative focus on the nineteenth-century British press's relationship to work illuminates an area whose effects are still evident today but which has been almost totally neglected hitherto. Offering bold new interpretative frameworks and provocative methodologies in media history and literary studies developed by an exciting group of new and established talent, this volume seeks to set a new research agenda for nineteenth-century interdisciplinary studies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Figures

Notes On Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: Living Work

Notes

2 Information Put to Work: Provincial Newspapers as Publishers of Specialist Business and Work Information

Editorial and Advertising: All Information

Formatting Information: Chronology and Typology

Local and Regional Weekly Newspapers

Prices Current

Specialist Trade Newspapers

Professional Journals

Trades Union and Workers' Journals

Information Sources

Types of Trade, Professional and Work-Related Content

The Culture of Work in the Local Press

Conclusions

3 Taxonomies and Procedures: The Case of Trade and Professional Periodicals

Classificatory Procedure 1: The Morphological

Classificatory Procedure 2: Formational ('Genetic')

Classificatory Procedure 3: The Ecosystemic

Classificatory Procedure 4: The Functional

4 The Page as a Stage: Male Opera Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Press

Celebrity, the Press and Private Life

In Dialogue With the Press: Politics, Letters, Networks, Identity

Braham and the John Bull Affair

The Age of the Interview

Gossip and Autobiography

5 'Watch Case Secret Springer, Printer and Publisher': The Many Work Identities of Richard Willoughby, Editor of the...

Early Years in Clerkenwell

The Druids' Magazine

Around 1840: Willoughby in the City

Willoughby's Purchase of the People's Journal

The Soldier's Progress and the Peace Society

Willoughby, Women's Work and the British Workwoman

6 'In the Hospital &amp

Out of the Hospital': Nurses and Nursing in Margaret Harkness's Periodical Publications

'In the Hospital:' Harkness's Representations of the Work of Nursing.

'Out of the Hospital': Nursing Across Harkness's Writing Career

Conclusions: Voicing Nurses in the Popular Press

7 'Higher Than Snuff Dealers': The Bookseller and the Formation of Trade Identity

A Modernised Trade Journal

Trade and Literary Gossip

Guidance and Advice

The Welfare of Booksellers and Trade Associations

Conclusion

8 Trade Custom and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement: The Practice of Copying in the Late-Victorian Confectionery Trade Press

Defending Confectionery Knowledge From Interlopers

Imitation and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement in Journalism

9 Agricultural Journals in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

10 The Limits of Work: The Early Years of the Bankers' Magazine (1844-1995) and the Banking Institute (1851-3)

The Environment: Banking and Banker's Periodicals By 1844

The Origins of the Bankers' Magazine

The Bankers' Magazine and the First Banking Institute (1851-3)

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-332320-0

1-000-68366-4

1-003-32320-0

1-000-68382-6

9781003323204

OCLC:

1346533158