English Newspaper, 1622-1932 - An Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London

Klappentext A bibliographical history of newspaper development. Zusammenfassung This book aims to stimulate interest in the bibliographical history of newspaper development! despite this form being 'essentially ephemeral'! which 'yet has a place! though humble! beside the cocdex and the printed book - the most permanent of records of human thought and experience'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The news-pamphlets, predecessors of the newspapers, 1622-1664; 2. The first newspapers, 1665-1695; 3. The thrice-weekly posts, 1695-1702; 4. The first daily newspaper and the development of the thrice-weekly evening posts, 1702-1715; 5. The weekly journals, I, 1713-1725; 6. The Weekly Journals, II, 1727-1742; 7. Daily Journals, Posts and Advertisers, 1719-1741; 8. Evening Journals, 1739-1758; 9. The mid-eighteenth-century papers, 1748-1770; 10. The mature eighteenth-century newspaper, I, 1770-1781; 11. The mature eighteenth-century newspaper, II, 1786-1789; 12. The nineteenth-century daily, 1803-1846; 13. The nineteenth century Sunday newspapers to 1861; 14. The mid-Victorian penny and halfpenny papers, 1855-1881; 15. The 'new journalism', 1883-1896; 16. The newspaper of today, 1898-1931; Appendix: Francis Hoffman; Indexes.

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• Authors: Stanley Morison, Morison Stanley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521122696
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12269-6
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Publishing industry and journalism, Publishing industry & book trade