The Punch brotherhood : table talk and print culture in Mid-Victorian London /
Leary, Patrick.
British Library.
London : The British Library,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index.
Introduction. Mister Punch and the historians ; Oral culture, print culture ; Community and production -- The brotherhood of the Punch table. The evolution of the dinner meeting ; The early staff at table, 1843-1857 ; Henry Silver and his diary, 1858-1870 -- Cartoons and conversations : the large cut. Many voices ; Imagining the reader ; Following the news ; Give and take -- Gossip and the literary life. Literary success and literary talk ; Swinburne : scandal and judgment ; The Bohemians -- Town talk : Dickens, Thackeray, and the policing of gossip. The great rivalry ; Dickens and gossip : amazing slanders ; The "personal statement" and its consequences ; The Garrick affair : printing comments upon my private conversation ; The committee ; The Garrick is in convulsions ; Wheels within wheels -- Shirley Brooks and the flight from Bohemia. A scrambling, uncertain life : the struggle for respectability ; The Tory journalist and the "grown up" Punch ; I mount a good many guns : the exercise of influence ; The important purpose of my life : the fragility of success -- Bradbury and Evans and the personal politics of print culture. Bradbury and Evans before Punch : master printers ; Punch before Bradbury and Evans : We must have Cash! ; Punch after Bradbury and Evans : the capitalization of sociability ; Talk, fellowship, and production ; Sales, profit, and friendship ; From printer-proprietors to publishers ; Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix. The Henry Silver "diary."
Punch (London, England)
English wit and humor