Journalism, Literature and Modernity: From Hazlitt to Modernism

Kate Campbell

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2004

Journalism, Literature and Modernity

From Hazlitt to Modernism

Kate Campbell

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474465601

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About this book

Reviews of the hardback edition:

'A meticulously detailed and thought-provoking look at Grub Street.'

Times Literary Supplement

'All the essays have insightful things to say about their individual authors as writers for the periodical press.'

Media History

'An effective geneaology of modern journalism from the early nineteenth century through to the 1930s.'

Sally Ledger, Birkbeck College

Journalism has often been disregarded or represented as 'other' by literary critics and authors. The sense of its difference from literature has been heightened by its identification with daily newspaper journalism and reporting. Yet 'journalism' in its broadest sense refers to all writing in public journals, spanning both high and popular culture. It has been central to experiences of modernity, making its dismissal problematic.

This book considers journalism in all its diversity, examining writing in journals across the cultural spectrum including literary journals, magazines and daily newspapers. Presenting a variety of critical approaches, the authors explore journalism's importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernism.

They offer readings of established writers, critics and journalists:

William Hazlitt
Charles Dickens
Henry Mayhew
Matthew Arnold
Walter Pater
Dora Marsden
Rebecca West
Virginia Woolf
Laura Riding

This book challenges received ideas of journalism's significance in literary and cultural history, as well as perceptions of modernity and modernism.

Key Features

Considers journalism in both its 'high' and 'low' cultural forms
Explores journalism's importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernism
Includes chapters on Hazlitt, Dickens, Arnold and Woolf

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Lorna Sage Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction On Perceptions of Journalism Kate Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Hazlitt, Speech and Writing Jon Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Dickens’s Later Journalism Geoffrey Hemstedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3. Platform, Performance and Payment in Henry Mayhew’s Roger Sales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4. Hybrid Journalism: Women and the Progressive Fortnightly Mark W. Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5. Matthew Arnold and Publicity: A Modern Critic as Journalist Kate Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6. ‘The Profession of Letters’: Walter Pater and Greek Studies Laurel Brake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7. Vortex Marsden: A Little Magazine and the Making of Modernity Helen McNeil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
8. The Making of a Modern Woman Writer: Rebecca West’s Journalism, 1911-1930 Lyn Pykett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
9. ‘Monarch of the Drab World’: Virginia Woolfs Figuring of Journalism as Abject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
10. The Law of Criticism: Laura Riding’s Editorship of Epilogue Rachel Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: June 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781474465601