Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press (eBook, PDF)

Living Work for Living People
Redaktion: King, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press:Living Work for Living People advances our knowledge of how our identities have become inextricably defined by work. This volume seeks to set a new research agenda for nineteenth-century interdisciplinary studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000683660
• Artikelnr.: 65969181

Autorenporträt

Andrew King is Professor of English at the University of Greenwich. He has published widely on nineteenth-century print media and popular reading, including two award-winning volumes with Alexis Easley and John Morton: The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Newspapers and Periodicals (2016) and Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press (2017). He is currently co-editor of Victorian Popular Fictions, the organ of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (of which he was President 2019-22), and runs BLT19.co.uk, an open-access site dedicated to nineteenth-century Business, Labour, Trade and Temperance periodicals.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Living Work
Andrew King
2. Information Put to Work: Provincial Newspapers as Publishers of
Specialist Business and Work Information
Andrew Hobbs
3. Taxonomies and Procedures: the case of 'Trade and Professional
Periodicals'
Andrew King
4. The Page as a Stage: Male Opera Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Press
Anna Maria Barry
5. 'Watch Case Secret Springer, Printer and Publisher:' The Many Work
Identities of Richard Willoughby, Editor of the British Workwoman
Magazine.
Deborah Canavan
6. 'In the Hospital + Out of the Hospital': Nurses and Nursing in Margaret
Harkness's Periodical Publications
Flore Janssen
7. 'Higher than Snuff dealers': The Bookseller and the Formation of Trade
Identity
Rachel Calder
8. Trade Custom and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement: The Practice of
Copying in the late-Victorian Confectionery Trade Press
Stephan Pigeon
9. Agricultural Journals in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Elizabeth Tilley
10. The Limits of Work: the Early Years of the Bankers' Magazine
(1844-1995) and the Banking Institute (1851-3)
Andrew King