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Hampton, Mark

Visions of the press in Britain, 1850-1950 / Mark Hampton - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2004 - ix, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1. The press in Britain, 1850-1950 --
2. Imagining the press, 1850-80 : the educational ideal ascendant --
3. The educational ideal of the press in the era of the new journalism, 1880-1914 --
4. "Representing the people" : the press as a "fourth estate," 1880-1914 --
5. Persuasion or propaganda? : thinking about the press in Britain, 1914-50 --
Epilogue : the first royal commission on the press (and beyond)

"Historians recognize the cultural centrality of the newspaper press in Britain, yet very little has been published regarding competing conceptions of the press and its proper role in British society." "In Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950, Mark Hampton analyzes the various historical conceptions of the British press that helped to create its modern role and demonstrates that these conceptions were

ISBN: 9780252029462

Publisher. No.: International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Journalism.
Press -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Presse - Grande-Bretagne

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Press.

Dewey Class. No.: 070.09034 HAM