The Novelty of Newspapers

Matthew Rubery is a Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the editor or coeditor of Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (Routledge, 2011) and Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism (Broadview, 2012).

• CONTENTS ; Acknowledgments ; Illustrations ; Introduction: The Age of Newspapers ; Newspapers in Different Voices ; A Nation of News Readers ; A Newspaperized World ; PART I: THE FRONT PAGE ; 1. THE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE ; Shipwrecks and Secret Tears from Dickens to Stoker ; The Latest Shipping Intelligence ; Why Victorian Heroines Read the Shipping News ; Shipwreck Spine ; Secret Tears for Ships Lost at Sea ; 2. THE PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS ; Advertisements, the Agony Column, and Sensation Novels of the 1860s ; The Short History of a Miserable Life ; A Double State of Existence ; The Sensation Novel in Embryo ; PART II: THE INNER PAGES ; 3. THE LEADING ARTICLE ; The Whispering Conscience in Trollope's Palliser Novels ; A Horror of Newspaper Men ; Thunderbolts from Mount Olympus ; Trollope's Whispering Conscience ; The Promise of Big Type in the Morning ; 4. THE PERSONAL INTERVIEW ; Wishing to Be Interviewed in Henry James ; Interviewed! ; The Rise of the Interview Society ; James's Overhearing Audience ; The Age of Interviewing ; 5. THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE ; Conrad's "Wild Story of a Journalist" ; Brains Pulsating to the Rhythm of Journalistic Phrases ; Stanley's Journalism by Warfare ; Kurtz's Letters from Africa ; Conclusion: The Back Page ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index