W.M. Thackeray and the mediated text : writing for periodicals in the mid-nineteenth century
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W.M. Thackeray and the mediated text : writing for periodicals in the mid-nineteenth century
（Nineteenth century series）
Ashgate, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-254) and index
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Description
Thackeray's "minor writings" remain caught in a debate about what constitutes "literature" and whether magazine writing and journalism might be construed as such. This debate was present during the inception of the mass periodical press in the 1830s when Thackeray began his career and forms part of the context of, reasoning within, and techniques of Thackeray's work. Throughout his career, Thackeray was enmeshed in critical arguments about periodicals, novels, "realism" and commercialism. He was himself both (and neither) journalist and literary artist and was at once a product of and critical of emerging writing practices. This book argues that an understanding of Thackeray's writings for periodicals and the literary and commercial context of these is central to an understanding of his literary achievement.
Focusing principally on the foundational part of his career, from 1833-1847, but relating this to the novels, particularly "Pendennis" and "The Adventures of Philip" and the "Cornhill Magazine" of the 1860s, the book explores Thackeray's ambiguous response to the burgeoning periodical press, and considers his negotation and critique of the market-place through a variety of publishing media.
Table of Contents
- Investing in the "National Standard" - representing "Belles-Lettres"
- echoses and narcissisms - repetitions and structures of self across the periodical lines - signature and persona in "The Paris Literary Gazette" and "Fraser's Magazine"
- the foreign correspondent - writing across borders in "The Constitutional" and "The Adventures of Philip"
- journalistic metamorphoses - women sensationalism and periodical fiction - Catherine - "A Story" and "The Ravenswing" in "Fraser's Magazine"
- confronting the French - the "Paris Sketch-Book" and travelling French letters
- the public and the press - journalistic authority, self-advertising and the periodical commodity in social essays for "Fraser's Magazine" and "Punch"
- deconstructing the press - "Punch", the journalistic persona and the contributor of "Fat"
- mediahood and manhood - "Pendennis"
- warring spirits - Cornhill's "Notch on the Axe" and Dickens' sensational "All the Year Round". Appendices: three contributors to the "Paris Literary Gazette", 1835
- Thackeray's contributions to the "Original", 1832
- Thackeray's contributions to the "National Standard", 1833.
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