Investigating Victorian journalism Book

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.