Description
The Novelty of Newspapers explains why the Victorian novel is best understood alongside the simultaneous development of the news as a commercial commodity read by up to a million readers per day. This study focuses on five of the most important of these narrative conventions-the shipping intelligence, personal advertisement, leading article, interview, and foreign correspondence-in order to show how concretely journalism influenced the novel at this time. Drawing on examples of periodicals from the period, Matthew Rubery reveals how the commercial press arising in nineteenth-century Britain profoundly influenced Mary Braddon, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Anthony Trollope, and many other novelists who all used narrative conventions derived from the press in their fiction.
About the Author
Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and Oregon State University Humanities Center since receiving his PhD from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize. He is the recipient of a number of professional awards including the Joseph Conrad Society's Juliet McLauchlan Essay Prize. His work on nineteenth-century print culture has appeared in English Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Henry James Review, English Language Notes, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. He has also contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture and Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.
Reviews
This study succeeds in documenting historically the narratological proximity and the inter-media competition of journalism and the novel in the early and mid- Victorian period. * Julian Murphet, Review of English Studies *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars 2010.
Book Information
ISBN 9780195369267
Author Matthew Rubery
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 496g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 236mm * 18mm
About the Author
Matthew Rubery is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He has held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and Oregon State University Humanities Center since receiving his PhD from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Howard Mumford Jones Prize. He is the recipient of a number of professional awards including the Joseph Conrad Society's Juliet McLauchlan Essay Prize. His work on nineteenth-century print culture has appeared in English Literary History, Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Henry James Review, English Language Notes, and the Journal of Victorian Culture. He has also contributed to the Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture and Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.
Reviews
This study succeeds in documenting historically the narratological proximity and the inter-media competition of journalism and the novel in the early and mid- Victorian period. * Julian Murphet, Review of English Studies *
Awards
Winner of Winner of the ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars 2010.
Book Information
ISBN 9780195369267
Author Matthew Rubery
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 496g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 236mm * 18mm
