TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palmegiano, E. M.
AU  - Palmegiano, E. M.
TI  - Perceptions of the press in nineteenth-century British periodicals : : a bibliography
SN  - 9781783080533
U1  - 016.0720 PAL 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Anthem Press, 
KW  - Bibliographies
KW  - Bibliographies of works on specific subjects
KW  - Journalism -- Great Britain -- Language -- Periodicals -- Bibliography
KW  - British periodicals -- Bibliography
KW  - HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
KW  - Press and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Periodicals -- Bibliography
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - REFERENCE -- Bibliographies & Indexes
N1  - Front Matter; Half Title; Advance Reviews; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Main Matter; Ainsworth's Magazine, 1842-1854; All the Year Round, 1859-1895; Bentley's Miscellany, 1837-1868; Bentley's Quarterly Review, 1859-1860; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1824-1900; The British and Foreign Review, 1835-1844; The British Quarterly Review, 1845-1886; Chambers's (Edinburgh) Journal, 1832-1900; The Contemporary Review, 1866-1900; The Cornhill Magazine, 1860-1900; The Dark Blue, 1871-1873; The Dublin Review, 1836-1900; The Dublin University Magazine, 1833-1880
N2  - "This annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British periodicals, complete with a detailed subject index, reveals how Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the origins and contemporary character of the domestic, imperial and foreign press. Drawn from a wide range of publications representing diverse political, economic, religious, social and literary views, this book contains over 4,500 entries, and features extracts from over forty nineteenth-century periodicals. The articles catalogued offer a thorough and influential analysis of their journalistic milieu, presenting statistics on sales and descriptions of advertising, passing judgment on space allocations, pinpointing different readerships, and identifying individuals who engaged with the press either exclusively or occasionally. Most importantly, the bibliography demonstrates that columnists routinely articulated ideas about the purpose of the press, yet rarely recognized the illogic of prioritizing public good and private profit simultaneously, thus highlighting implicitly a universal characteristic of journalism: its fractious, ambiguous, conflicting behavior
ER  -