The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction After the by Matthew Rubery

By Matthew Rubery

coming up within the 1800s and shortly drawing 1000000 readers an afternoon, the economic press profoundly stimulated the paintings of Brontë, Braddon, Dickens, Conrad, James, Trollope, and others who mined print journalism for fictional innovations. 5 of an important of those narrative conventions--the transport intelligence, own commercial, best article, interview, and overseas correspondence--show how the Victorian novel is healthier understood along the simultaneous improvement of newspapers. In hugely unique analyses of Victorian fiction, this learn additionally captures the dazzling ways that public media enabled the expression of non-public feeling between traditional readers: from the trauma as a result of a lover's pronounced suicide to the vicarious gratification felt in the course of a celeb interview; from the misery at discovering one's habit the topic of unflattering editorial observation to the apprehension of far away cultures throughout the overseas correspondence. Combining a wealth of historic study with a chain of astute shut readings, The Novelty of Newspapers breaks down the assumed divide among the epoch's literature and journalism and demonstrates that newsprint was once essential to the advance of the novel.

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