George Augustus Sala and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: The Personal Style of a Public Writer...

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Peter Blake

George Augustus Sala and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press

The Personal Style of a Public Writer

Peter Blake

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Routledge
30 April 2015

The Arts: General & Reference; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Humanities; Media studies; Press & journalism

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Sala’s personal style, along with his innovations in form, influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake places Sala at the centre of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals and examines his prolific contributions to newspapers and periodicals in the context of contemporary debates and issues surrounding his work. Sala’s journalistic style, Blake argues, was a product of the very different mediums in which he worked, whether it was the visual arts, bohemian journalism, novels, pornographic plays, or travel writing. Harkening back to a time when journalism and fiction were closely connected, Blake’s book not only expands our understanding of one of the more prominent and interesting journalists and personalities of the nineteenth century, but also sheds light on prominent nineteenth-century writers and artists such as Charles Dickens, Mathew Arnold, William Powell Frith, Henry Vizetelly, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

By: Peter Blake
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781472416070
ISBN 10: 1472416074
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 30 April 2015
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

A visual apprenticeship. Tales of Two Cities: part 1 - London. Tales of Two Cities: part 2 - Paris. Interlude - a Russian digression. Novelist and man of letters. 'There really is a world outside Fleet Street': completing the journalistic education: Sala as special correspondent. 'The flogging to be efficacious must be severe': Sala and flagellant pornography.

Peter Blake is a lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Brighton, UK.