Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History, 1993 Annual

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Edited by Michael Harris

ISBN: 0-313-29050-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29050-3

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240 pages, figures

Greenwood Press

Publication: 8/30/1994

List Price: $91.95 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Newspaper and Periodical History

Description: This 1993 annual volume, edited by Michael Harris, represents the continuation of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History. Annual volumes will continue to offer important studies about the history of newspapers and periodicals around the world. This 1993 volume contains a particularly interesting range of material covering a broad chronological and geographical span along with a valuable bibliography of new works in newspaper and periodical history. This annual also provides reviews of new books of note and notices and announcements about new programs and works.

Table of Contents:

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
London Corantos in the 1620s by Michael Frearson
Fact, Fiction, and Letters to the Editor in Fielding's Essay-Journals by Bertrand A. Goldgar
"The Self-Impannelled Jury": The Reception of Review Journals, 1749-1760 by Antonio Forster
Essence and Impartiality: French Language Periodical Digests of the Literary Press in the Eighteenth Century by Judith K. Proud
A Protestant Public Sphere: The Early European Newspaper Press by Goran Leth
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Losing a Sense of Proportion: Sports Journalism and Celebrity during America's Jazz Age by Bruce Evensen
Cooperation on a Scandal Story: Oscar King Davis and the President by Robert L. Spellman
Establishing a Goldfields Newspaper: The Inanguahua Herald, Reefton, New Zealand, 1872 by Ross Harvey
A Profile of Media Militancy: Das Kleine Blatt, 1927-1934 by Robert Schwarz
"The Unislanding of English": The Defeat of the Channel Tunnel Project of 1882 by Ann Parry
Sources: Free Love and Free Thought, The Adult, 1897-1899 by Patricia Anderson
Annual Checklist Book Reviews
:Annual Review of Work in Newspapers, History: A Checklist by Diana Dixon
Martin Barker, Comics: Ideology, Power, and the Critics, by Jeremy Gregory
Richard Cockett, David Astor and the Observer by Jeremy Black
W.F. Bynum, S. Lock, and R. Porter, Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge by Virgina Berridge
John Tebbel and Mary Ellen Zuckerman, The Magazine in America, 1741-1990 by Patricia Anderson
Tom Goldstein, Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism and Leo Bogart, Preserving the Press: How Daily Newspapers Mobilized to Keep Their Readers by Brian Ward
Jean Sgard, editor, Dictionnaire des journaux 1600-1789 by Anne Goldgar
Joanne Shattock, Politics and Reviewers: The Edinburgh and the Quarterly in the Early Victorian Age by Diana Dixon
M. Harrison, Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790-1835 by Peter Brett
J.R. Zaller, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by David Thone and David Chaney
Marco Cuaz, Le nuove di Francia, L'immagine della rivoluzione francese nella stampa periodica italiana, 1789-1795 by William Doyle
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