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The Punch Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London - Couverture rigide

Leary, Patrick

 
9780712309233: The Punch Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0712309233 ISBN 13 : 9780712309233
Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 2010

Synopsis

Deep in the recesses of the British Library sits a long oval dining table of plain deal, its battered surface scored with initials carved around the edge. This unprepossessing piece of furniture was once the most famous table in London: the Punch table where the staff of the most successful and influential comic magazine the English-speaking world has ever seen gathered every week. Based on extensive research among unpublished letters, diaries, minute books, and business records, "The Punch Brotherhood" takes the reader inside this Victorian institution, and brings to life the tightly-knit community of writers, artists, and proprietors who gathered around the famous Punch table, and their uninhibited conversations, spiced with jokes and gossip. Highlighting the role of talk in the understanding of 19th-century print culture, and shedding new light on the careers of literary giants Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray and of the many lesser authors who laboured in their shadow, this groundbreaking study vividly demonstrates how oral culture permeated and shaped the realm of print, from the dining tables of exclusive men's clubs to the alleyways of Fleet Street.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Leary is President of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and Visiting Scholar with the History Department of Northwestern University, USA. He is also creator and webmaster of Victoria Research Web (http://VictorianResearch.org); founder and manager of VICTORIA: The Electronic Conference for Victorian Studies and founder and manager of SHARP-L: The Electronic Conference for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

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Éditeur
The British Library Publishing Division
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0712309233
ISBN 13 
9780712309233
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
184
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Personne responsable
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