John Plunkett presents the first history of the interaction between the monarchy and the media to focus on the reign of Queen Victoria. He argues that the development of popular print and visual media in the nineteenth century helped to reinvent the position of the monarchy in national life, and includes a detailed account of the emergence of royal journalism and the impact of new media such as photography.

Queen Victoria - First Media Monarch

Literature & Fiction

Plunkett, John

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

Victorian Print Media: A Reader

Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. It has long been acknowledged that the growth of the popular publishing industry played an instrumental role in the success of most major Victorian novelists. Traditional critical positions have, nevertheless, recently expanded into a much broader field concerned with media history, book studies, modes of textual production and consumption, and concepts of "popular literature." One of most notable current critical trends is a renewed interest in the importance of all aspects of nineteenth-century print culture. Victorian Print Media: A Reader collects primary sources from nineteenth century journals, newspapers, and periodicals into an anthology that can be used for teaching purposes, but is also intended to complement and encourage ongoing research. The extracts are organized into ten thematically arranged sections. Each section addresses a specific conceptual or historical issue, such as the impact of serial publication upon practices of reading and authorship. The sections demonstrate the multiple factors upon which the aesthetics of print media depended, making this anthology of use to all researchers, teachers, and students of the period.

King,Andrew

Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. Victorian Print Media: A Reader consists of edited extracts from nineteenth-century sources which discuss all aspects of the production and circulation of print media. The extracts are organized into thematically arranged sections such as authorship and journalism, reading spaces, and the influence of print.

An anthology of both familiar and previously unavailable primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth-century ideas. An expert team introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key literary texts from the Victorian period.

Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks, 4)

Gagnier, Regenia

Vadillo, Ana Parejo

Red Globe Press

A collection of both familiar and unfamiliar primary texts thatilluminate the world ofnineteenth century ideas. An expert team gather together, introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key texts from the Victorian period.

Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks, 2)

Reproduces the first three years of Wired magazine's introductory graphic statements

Mind Grenades: Manifestos from the Future

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Hardwired

This book captures the stunning phenomenon that is Burning Man. An annual carnival attended by thousands each year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, Burning Man is pure millennial fever. It previews what the twenty-first century will be all about: spontaneous, diverse communities - real and virtual - accommodating individual expression that is more powerful and imaginative than ever before.

Burning Man

Politics & Social Sciences

Brown, Janelle

Traub, Barbara

Wieners, Brad

Social Sciences

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Queen Victoria - First Media Monarch

Victorian Print Media: A Reader

Victorian Print Media: A Reader

Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks, 4)

Victorian Literature: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Sourcebooks, 2)

Mind Grenades: Manifestos from the Future

Burning Man