Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950

Klappentext Historians recognize the cultural centrality of the newspaper press in Britain! yet very little has been published regarding competing conceptions of the press and its proper role in British society. In Visions of the Press in Britain! 1850-1950! Mark Hampton surveys a diversity of sources--Parliamentary speeches and commissions! books! pamphlets! periodicals and select private correspondence--in order to identify how governmental elites! the educated public! professional journalists! and industry moguls characterized the political and cultural function of the press! Hampton demonstrates that British theories of the press were intimately tied to definitions of the public and the emergence of mass democracy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung Hampton surveys a diversity of sources to demonstrate that British theories of the press were intimately tied to definitions of the public and the emergence of mass democracy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Hampton
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2004
• EAN: 9780252029462
• ISBN: 978-0-252-02946-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches