Investigating Victorian Journalism

This reader of essays offers fresh insights into British journalism of the 19th century. It attempts to promote a discrete, theoretical field of study which is genuinely interdisciplinary. Dominant categories of journalism, such as the English metropolitan print-based press, are juxtaposed with the competing categories of the local London press, the Welsh press, and the newer electronic journalism. Opening new avenues of investigation the book makes a contribution to the teaching of communications, the study of discourse, and press history.Reading the periodical press : text and context / Lyn Pykett --Towards a theory of the periodical as a publishing genre / Margaret Beetham --Popular narrative and political discourse in Reynold's Weekly Newspaper / Anne Humpherys --Newspapers and periodicals in historical research / Edward Royle --Local journalism in Victorian political culture / Aled Jones --Welsh periodicals : a survey / Brynley F. Roberts --Yr Amserau : the first decade 1843-52 / Philip Henry Jones --London's local newspapers : patterns of change in the Victorian period / Michael Harris --The early management of the Standard / Dennis Griffiths --The growth of a national press / Lucy Brown --Victorian periodicals and academic discourse / B.E. Maidment. Sources for the study of newspapers / Joel H. Wiener --The golden stain of time : preserving Victorian periodicals / Scott Bennett --Technology and the periodical press / Deian Hopkin.