The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age [electronic resource] /
Mussell, J.author.
James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period, he argues that we have no choice but to engage with the new digital resources that have transformed how we access the print archive.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: From Front Page to Home Page; Digitization, print culture and textual scholarship; Readers and users; Print objects, digital objects, digital resources; The nineteenth-century press in the digital age; 1 From the Margins and for the Margins: Studying the Nineteenth-Century Press Today; Newspapers and periodicals in the nineteenth century; The study of the press in the digital age; Conclusion: remembering the margins
2 Bibliographic Codes and Visual Modes: The Role of the Visual on Page and ScreenText and image in the nineteenth-century press; Text and image in the digital age; Conclusion: bibliographic codes as visual modes; 3 Editions and Archives; Can we edit journalism? The importance of form; Editions and archives; The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse); Conclusion: archives as editions;  editions as archives; 4 Newspapers and Periodicals in Class; Reading the past through the press; Reading (the) paper on the screen; Conclusions: teaching, digital literacy and research
Conclusion: We Have Always Been UsersBibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
James Mussell provides an accessible account of the digitization of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. As studying this material is essential to understand the period, he argues that we have no choice but to engage with the new digital resources that have transformed how we access the print archive.
Historiography.
Civilization
Social history.
History, Modern.
Literature, Modern
History of Britain and Ireland.
Historiography and Method.
Cultural History.
Social History.
Modern History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.