Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals - Conviction and Career

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century. Introducing now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained.

Sommario

Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Conviction and Career
2. Clara Lucas Balfour: writing and lecturing as symbiotic vocation
3. William Hoyle: editor, poet, and songsmith
4. Mary Anna Paull: the flowering of a temperance novelist
5. Frank Adkins: special agent with a drive to write
6. Alfred J. Glasspool: juggling the Guildhall and the lecture hall
7. Walter N. Edwards: a life in scientific temperance
8. Mary Magdalen Forrester: from the dye tub to the editor’s chair
9. Conclusion
Index

Info autore

Dr. Annemarie McAllister is Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Central Lancashire and has a background in literature and cultural history, with a special interest in periodicals and print culture. She has written widely on the cultural, social, and political history of the UK temperance movement, and edited a volume of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs on "Temperance Past and Present" in 2019.

Riassunto

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century. Introducing now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Annemarie Mcallister, McAllister Annemarie
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032069937
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3206993-7
• Pagine: 168
• Serie: The Nineteenth Century Series
• Categorie: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Enciclopedie, lessici; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Society & culture: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Society and culture: general, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs