The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2489-9 (ISBN)
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Provides a comprehensive history of the British and Irish Press from 1800-1900, reflected upon in 60 substantive chapters and focused case studiesSets out to capture the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in nineteenth-century Britain and IrelandOffers unique and important reassessments of nineteenth-century British and Irish press and periodical media within social, cultural, technological, economic and historical contexts
This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history during a key period of change and development. It covers an important point of expansion in periodical and press history across the four nations of Great Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), concentrating on cross-border and transnational comparisons and contrasts in nineteenth-century print communication.
Designed to provide readers with a clear understanding of the current state of research in the field, in addition to an extensive introduction, it includes forty newly commissioned chapters and case studies exploring a full range of press activity and press genres during this intense period of change. Along with keystone chapters on the economics of the press and periodicals, production processes, readership and distribution networks, and legal frameworks under which the press operated, the book examines a wide range of areas from religious, literary, political and medical press genres to analyses of overseas and émigré press and emerging developments in children’s and women’s press.
David Finkelstein is a cultural historian who has published in areas related to print, labour and press history. Recent publications include Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World (2018), and the edited Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800–1900 (2020), winner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize for its contribution to the promotion of Victorian press studies.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies
Introduction, David Finkelstein
PART I: Press and Periodical Economics
1. The Economics of Press and Periodical Production, Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt
Case Study 1: Newspapers and Advertising, Peter Robinson
PART II: Production and Distribution
2. Production, Helen S. Williams
Case Study 2: John Cossar & Son and the Govan Press, Helen S. Williams
3. The Evolution of Image-Making Industries and the Mid- to Late Victorian Press, Rose Roberto
PART III: Readership and Distribution
4. Readership and Distribution, Paul Raphael Rooney
PART IV: Identities and Communities
5. Cultural Agents and Contexts: The Professionalisation of Journalism, Joanne Shattock
Case Study 3: New Journalism, Philip March
Case Study 4: Letters to the Editor, Allison Cavanagh
Case Study 5: The Reporter, Stephen Tate
Case Study 6: The Byline, Steve Harrison
PART V: Legal Frameworks
6. Newspapers and the Law in the Nineteenth Century, Tom O’Malley
PART VI: Themed Chapters
7. The English-Language Press in Continental Europe, Diana Cooper-Richet
8. Transnational Exchanges, M. H. Beals
Case Study 7: The Fight in Piccadilly: How False News Went Viral in 1895, Colette Colligan
Case Study 8: Transnational Exchange between British and Swedish Periodicals in the 1830s, Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros
Case Study 9: An Imperial Ideology of News: News Values and Reporting about Japan in Colonial India, Amelia Bonea
Case Study 10: The Steamship Press: An International Conduit of Information and Imperial Masculinity, Paul Raphael Rooney
Case Study 11: The Russian Emigre Press, Helen S. Williams
9. Literary and Review Journalism, Joanne Wilkes
10. ‘One language is quite sufficient for the mass’: Metropolitan Journalism, the British State and the ‘Vernacular’ Periodical Press in Wales, 1840–914, Aled Gruffydd Jones
11. The Scottish Gaelic Press, Sheila M. Kidd
12. The Irish-Language Press: ‘A tender plant at the best of times’?, Regina Uí Chollatáin
13. The Nineteenth-Century Denominational Press, Joan Allen
Case Study 12: The Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, Ian d’Alton
14. Comics, Cartoons and the Illustrated Press, Elizabeth Tilley
15. The Satirical Press, Michael de Nie
16. The Medical Press and Its Public, Sally Frampton
17. Science and the Press, Alex Csiszar
Case Study 13: ‘Fellows that never knew each other’: Natural History Periodicals, Matthew Wale
18. The Business Press, Melissa Score
19. The Press and Radical Expression: Structure and Dissemination, Martin Conboy
20. The Political Press, James Thompson
Case Study 14: The Glasgow Herald, James Thompson
Case Study 15: Parnell, Edmund Dwyer Gray and the Press in Ireland, Felix M. Larkin
Case Study 16: The Nation, James Quinn
21. The Trade and Professional Press, Andrew King
Case Study 17: The Book Trade Press, Rachel Calder
Case Study 18: The Armed Services Press, Margery Masterson
22. The Leisure and Hobby Press, Christopher A. Kent
Case Study 19: Galleries without Walls: Art and the Mechanical Mass Culture of the Press, Michael Bromley and Karen Hasin-Bromley
23. The Sporting Press, Joel H. Wiener
Case Study 20: Sport Reporting in the Times from 1800 to 1900, Jessie Wilkie
24. The Children’s Press, Frederick S. Milton
Case Study 21: Children and the News, Siân Pooley
25. The Women’s Press, Kathryn Ledbetter
26. The Provincial, Local and Regional Press, Andrew J. H. Jackson
Case Study 22: The Provincial Nature of the London Letter, Andrew Hobbs
Case Study 23: William Saunders and the Industrial Supply of News in the Late Nineteenth Century, Andrew Hobbs
Case Study 24: The Irish Times: ‘The Protestant and Conservative daily newspaper’, Mark O’Brien
Key Press and Periodical Events Timeline, 1800–1900
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.2.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press |
| Zusatzinfo | 92 black and white illustrations, 12 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-2489-9 / 1474424899 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-2489-9 / 9781474424899 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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