Mussell, J orcid.org/0000-0002-5697-1557 (2014) Elemental Forms: The Newspaper as Popular Genre in the Nineteenth Century. Media History, 20 (1). pp. 4-20. ISSN 1368-8804
Abstract
This paper considers the way the nineteenth-century newspaper was oriented towards information. Despite their political differences, nineteenth-century newspapers were often discussed as if they were universal, with a paper for every segment of society. My argument is that this apparent universality, where the newspaper was figured as a print genre potentially open to all, laid the foundations for the emergence of the popular press. The paper is in two parts. The first considers the nineteenth-century newspaper as a genre, arguing that its periodicity enabled it to serve as a perfect medium, passing on content derived from elsewhere. The second explores the way information was conceived in the period. By looking at the way the newspaper drew upon, represented, and distributed information, it is possible to understand how it functioned as material media. In conclusion, I look at the way the nineteenth-century newspaper is changed through digitization today. When scholars access nineteenth-century newspapers through digital resources, they engage with a different material media that, in turn, reconfigures the source material. Such encounters foreground the importance of genre while providing new opportunities for its study.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Mussell, JEP (2014) Elemental Forms: The Newspaper as Popular Genre in the Nineteenth Century. Media History, 20 (1). 4 - 20 (17). ISSN 1368-8804 as published in Media History, 2014 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13688804.2014.880264 |
Keywords: | newspapers; digital; humanities; popular; genre |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2014 18:18 |
Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2019 15:48 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2014.880264 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13688804.2014.880264 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:77776 |