Charles Dickens & the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-1870 - Softcover

"Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press 1850-1870" is a series of essays and articles by various writers who studied Dickens. The book, edited by Hazel Mackenzie and Ben Winyard is a deep study of Charles Dickens as a journalist during the period in which he was a very successful magazine editor of Household Words and then All the Year Round. The essays in this book were presented online at [...] and this book was compiled especially for students and post graduates who wish to study Dickens in depth. During the mid-19th century, Charles Dickens was editor of his own magazines: "Household Words" and "All Year Round." This work presents papers by scholars of Dickens and 19th-century culture, culled from a conference organized by the Dickens Journals Online website project, which offers a digital archive of Dickens's magazines. The essays are grouped in sections on close readings of articles from the magazines, discussion of journalism during the period, and analysis of the magazines in the context of issues such as gender, imperialism, and the urban experience. Some specific topics include Francomania in Dickens's journalism, and the campaign for sanitation reform, and Dickens's search for a national identity. B&W photos of covers and pages from original publications are included. The book's readership includes advanced students and scholars in Dickens, 19th-ceuntry studies, and digital humanities.

With the phenomenally popular weekly magazines Household Words and All the Year Round, Charles Dickens effectively re-invented periodical literature in the nineteenth century. Already enjoying huge stature as a world-famous author, Dickens was often the principal contributor of the journals that carried the novels serialised within them. As, by his own term, the conductor of the weekly magazines, he was able to direct the gaze of his readership, easily eliding fiction and non-fiction, to those things that most concerned him: poverty, crime, education, public health, women, social welfare and reform. This collection of new essays from a rich variety of contributors explores the journalism and fiction in Household Words and All Year Round and their relationship to the wider publishing world. The essays were presented at the Dickens Journals Online Conference launched in March 2012. Contributors include: Laurel Brake, Koenraad Claes, Iain Crawford, Daragh Downes, John Drew, Judith Laura Foster, Holly Furneaux, Ignacio Ramas Gay, Clare Horrocks, Louis James, Patrick Leary, Hannah Lewis-Bill, Helen Mckenzie, Pete Orford, David Parker, David Paroissien, Robert L. Patten, Jasper Schelstraete, Paul Schlicke, Joanne Shattock, Michael Slater, John Tulloch and Catherine Waters.