Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood - Mapping the World in Household Words

Zusatztext "This carefully researched study will interest both scholars of 19th-century history and Dickens spcialists." - J.D. Vann! emeritus! University of North Texas Informationen zum Autor Sabine Clemm lectures on the nineteenth-century novel, culture, and poetry at the University of Southampton. Klappentext Examines Charles Dickens' weekly family magazine "Household Words" in order to develop a picture of how the journal negotiated! asserted and simultaneously deconstructed Englishness as a unified (and sometimes unifying) mode of expression. Zusammenfassung Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood examines Charles Dickens’ weekly family magazine Household Words in order to develop a detailed picture of how the journal negotiated, asserted and simultaneously deconstructed Englishness as a unified (and sometimes unifying) mode of expression. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter One: 'Amidst the heterogeneous masses': Household Words and the Great Exhibition of 1851 Chapter Two: (Un-)Englishness and National Character in Household Words Chapter Three: Household Words' Treatment of Ireland Chapter Four: 'Continental ways and means': Europe in Household Words Chapter Five: 'Interlopers in the East': Household Words and India ConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Sabine Clemm, Sabine (University of Southampton Clemm, Clemm Sabine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2008
• EAN: 9780415958462
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95846-2
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors; Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers