- Hardcover: 800 pages
- Publisher: British Library Publishing Division (2 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071235039X
- ISBN-13: 978-0712350396
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17 x 6.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 81,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It gives a rich a picture as one would wish of a world where print was the media king...the DNCJ splendidly demonstrates just how pervasive journalism was in the culture of the time and how serious is its general absence from our awareness of the 19th century. It is a magnificent acheivement. --Sage Pub
Everything about this book is commendable. --Reference Reviews
Everything about this book is commendable. --Reference Reviews
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'The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism' is a large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th century Britain. Its comprehensive representation of diverse facets of the industry provides a snapshot of the press, from journalist to reader. Its 1700 entries, by an international team of experts and researchers, reflect the range of the press, including art, children, illustration, literature, religion, sports, politics, local and regional titles, satire, and trade journals. 'DNCJ' includes newspapers and periodicals in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.Here you will find entries on journals, journalists, illustrators, editors, publishers, proprietors, printers, and topics such as advertising, frequency, magazine day, printing presses, readership, social science and the press, and war and journalism. A team of 13 Associate Editors and two co-editors have shaped it, in collaboration with the research community, commissioning authorative new research. Extensive indexes, a bibliography, and a chronology enhance the coverage of this burgeoning field.
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A cultural-studies masterpiece, 12 Jun 2011
By Donald Hausrath - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism (Hardcover)
Imagine having the scholars, the organization, and the funds to address an admitted "utopian dream" of providing a single 1000 (actually 1014) page source of just about anything related to writing, selling, publishing, and reading of British and Irish magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth-century. Against all odds, a four-year project to do just that was completed in 2009, sponsored by the Royal Flemish Academy for the Arts and the Sciences. It was published by the British Library and Academia Press (Gent). Its 1620 entries came from "a range of professions, from barrister to economist" and provide, for American readers, an historical perspective on aspects of life and writing in the Victorian era that will prove useful to students working in disparate fields. Browsing - which is fun to do in this title - through the best index I have ever seen in a reference book, I come across multiple entries on, for example, Aubrey Beardsley, booksellers, circulating libraries, child labor, Lord Byron, censorship, colored illustrations, comic journals, crime reporting, Charles Dickens, engravers, foreign correspondents, gossip columns, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, journalists, lower-middle class readers, mass readership, New York Times, paper, railways, reading and class, sensation fiction, United States, war correspondents, women journalists and women's suffrage not to mention entries on sports, politics, printers, editors, and publishers. Besides the 100 page bibliography, and 189 page general index, there is a useful listing of relevant - and often hard-to-find - websites and archives, and a separate index of all the illustrators, journalists/editors, distributors, printers, publishers and journal titles mentioned in the work. Joan Crawford, writing in Library and Information History, notes "[This book] will quickly become an essential touchstone for work in the field of nineteenth-century journalism and to a wider set of disciplines such as literature, history, and cultural studies."
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