Powers of the Press
Subtitle: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England
By: Aled Jones.
Series: The nineteenth century
Publisher: Scolar Press; Ashgate Pub. Co.; Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Brookfield, Vt., USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 231
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: English newspapers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Press and politics -- Great Britain.
Description: "The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with immense difficulties. It is, however, a problem with a history: the hold of the press over public opinion was debated with urgency throughout the nineteenth century. This book looks at the ways in which individuals, pressure groups, political organisations and the state sought to understand the mass communications media of the nineteenth century, and to use them to influence public opinion and effect moral and social reform." "The tensions between Victorian moral imperatives and the operation of the free commercial market raised issues of great public concern, such as whether the mass media should be under private or public control. These tensions have dominated the way in which Britain and other western societies have thought about the newer broadcasting media, but their origins are older and more complex than many studies of twentieth-century media acknowledge. This book is both a necessary historical perspective on debates in media theory, as well as a major addition to the social and cultural history of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.
Table of contents: label: List of figures and tables
pagenum: ix; label: Preface
pagenum: xi; label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: The liberty of the press
pagenum: 10; title: Inherited narratives
pagenum: 10; title: State regulation and its opponents
pagenum: 19; label: 2
title: The newspaper imagined
pagenum: 28; title: Emblems and mottoes
pagenum: 29; title: Verse and fiction
pagenum: 38; label: 3
title: Imposing order: historians and indexers
pagenum: 47; title: Newspaper history
pagenum: 51; title: Directories, indexes and collections
pagenum: 68; label: 4
title: The voice of the charmer
pagenum: 73; title: Moral philosophy and commnication
pagenum: 75; title: Newspapers and the problem of public opinion
pagenum: 87; label: 5
title: The cultural debate
pagenum: 98; title: Poison and antidote
pagenum: 99; title: Respectable practices
pagenum: 113 |; label: 6
title: The political debate
pagenum: 140; title: Liberalism and the politics of te market-place
pagenum: 146; title: The Conservative ‘moral strategy’
pagenum: 155; label: 7
title: Journalism and public discussion
pagenum: 180; title: Newspaper reading
pagenum: 181; title: Reader-critics
pagenum: 187; label: Appendix
pagenum: 204; label: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 211; label: Index
pagenum: 223