Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for Living People

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Extending the limits of the award-winning Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals and Newspapers (2016) and its companion volume (and also award-winning) Researching the Nineteenth-Century Press: Case Studies (2017), Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press: Living Work for Living People advances our knowledge of how our identities have become inextricably defined by work. The collection’s innovative focus on the nineteenth-century British press’s relationship to work illuminates an area whose effects are still evident today but which has been almost totally neglected hitherto. Offering bold new interpretative frameworks and provocative methodologies in media history and literary studies developed by an exciting group of new and established talent, this volume seeks to set a new research agenda for nineteenth-century interdisciplinary studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Figures Notes On Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Living Work Notes 2 Information Put to Work: Provincial Newspapers as Publishers of Specialist Business and Work Information Editorial and Advertising: All Information Formatting Information: Chronology and Typology Local and Regional Weekly Newspapers Prices Current Specialist Trade Newspapers Professional Journals Trades Union and Workers’ Journals Information Sources Types of Trade, Professional and Work-Related Content The Culture of Work in the Local Press Conclusions Notes 3 Taxonomies and Procedures: The Case of Trade and Professional Periodicals Classificatory Procedure 1: The Morphological Classificatory Procedure 2: Formational (‘Genetic’) Classificatory Procedure 3: The Ecosystemic Classificatory Procedure 4: The Functional Notes 4 The Page as a Stage: Male Opera Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Press Celebrity, the Press and Private Life In Dialogue With the Press: Politics, Letters, Networks, Identity Braham and the John Bull Affair The Age of the Interview Gossip and Autobiography Notes 5 ‘Watch Case Secret Springer, Printer and Publisher’: The Many Work Identities of Richard Willoughby, Editor of the... Early Years in Clerkenwell The Druids’ Magazine Around 1840: Willoughby in the City Willoughby’s Purchase of the People’s Journal The Soldier’s Progress and the Peace Society Willoughby, Women’s Work and the British Workwoman Notes 6 ‘In the Hospital & Out of the Hospital’: Nurses and Nursing in Margaret Harkness’s Periodical Publications ‘In the Hospital:’ Harkness’s Representations of the Work of Nursing ‘Out of the Hospital’: Nursing Across Harkness’s Writing Career Conclusions: Voicing Nurses in the Popular Press Notes 7 ‘Higher Than Snuff Dealers’: The Bookseller and the Formation of Trade Identity A Modernised Trade Journal Trade and Literary Gossip Guidance and Advice The Welfare of Booksellers and Trade Associations Conclusion Notes 8 Trade Custom and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement: The Practice of Copying in the Late-Victorian Confectionery Trade Press Defending Confectionery Knowledge From Interlopers Imitation and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement in Journalism Conclusions Notes 9 Agricultural Journals in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Notes 10 The Limits of Work: The Early Years of the Bankers’ Magazine (1844–1995) and the Banking Institute (1851–3) The Environment: Banking and Banker’s Periodicals By 1844 The Origins of the Bankers’ Magazine The Bankers’ Magazine and the First Banking Institute (1851–3) Notes Bibliography Index