Visions of the press in Britain, 1850-1950
By: Mark Hampton.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Press -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Press -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Journalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Journalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Description: "Historians recognize the cultural centrality of the newspaper press in Britain, yet very little has been published regarding competing conceptions of the press and its proper role in British society." "In Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950, Mark Hampton analyzes the various historical conceptions of the British press that helped to create its modern role and demonstrates that these conceptions were intimately involved in the emergence of mass democracy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "Mark Hampton surveys a diversity of sources - parliamentary speeches and commissions, books, pamphlets, periodicals and select private correspondence - in order to identify how governmental elites, the educated public, professional journalists, and industry moguls characterized the political and cultural function of the press."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-213) and index.