Work and the Nineteenth-Century Press

Living Work for Living People

Andrew King

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032346540
• eBook ISBN: 9781000683820
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: Living Work
• 2 Information Put to Work: Provincial Newspapers as Publishers of Specialist Business and Work Information
• 3 Taxonomies and Procedures: The Case of Trade and Professional Periodicals
• 4 The Page as a Stage: Male Opera Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Press
• 5 ‘Watch Case Secret Springer, Printer and Publisher’: The Many Work Identities of Richard Willoughby, Editor of the British Workwoman Magazine
• 6 ‘In the Hospital & Out of the Hospital’: Nurses and Nursing in Margaret Harkness’s Periodical Publications
• 7 ‘Higher than Snuff Dealers’: The Bookseller and the Formation of Trade Identity
• 8 Trade Custom and the Courtesy of Acknowledgement: The Practice of Copying in the Late-Victorian Confectionery Trade Press
• 9 Agricultural Journals in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
• 10 The Limits of Work: The Early Years of the Bankers’ Magazine (1844–1995) and the Banking Institute (1851–3)
• Bibliography
• Index