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In this book, Martin Conboy unpicks the complex and dynamic relationship between the popular press and popular culture. Rejecting approaches to popular culture which restrict themselves to the contemporary, Conboy argues for the importance of an historical perspective in understanding the contemporary relationship between the popular and the press. The Press and Popular Culture offers: A much-needed critical history of the popular press -from the Early Modern Period to the present day A comparative analysis of the emergence of the popular press in the US and Britain An approach to the role played by the popular press in the formation of popular culture which emphasizes the use of language
Commercializing the Popular in Britain
Commercializing the Popular in Britain
Late Victorian Developments
This chapter will explore the ways in which popular newspapers developed towards the end of the nineteenth century in Britain. This late Victorian era saw the emergence of the first newspapers which were able to combine on a daily basis the commercial acumen and the cultural mixture within the newspaper format which were to carry aspects of traditional popular genres to a mass audience into the twentieth century. This mutation of popular culture and its manifestation within the commercial press constitutes a highly specific configuration within time and place.
In the particular context of the late Victorian popular press in metropolitan Britain, one of the essential components for the development of such a popular press ...
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