The Dynamics of Genre: Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Dallas Liddle
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Description for The Dynamics of Genre: Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Hardcover. Combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided many Victorian authors with needed income - and sometimes even with full second careers as editors and journalists - little has been done to trace how the midcentury ascendancy of periodical discourses might have influenced Victorian literary discourse. In ""The Dynamics of Genre"", Dallas Liddle innovatively combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with ... Read more
Newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals reached a peak of cultural influence and financial success in Britain in the 1850s and 1860s, out-publishing and out-selling books as much as one hundred to one. But although scholars have long known that writing for the vast periodical marketplace provided many Victorian authors with needed income - and sometimes even with full second careers as editors and journalists - little has been done to trace how the midcentury ascendancy of periodical discourses might have influenced Victorian literary discourse. In ""The Dynamics of Genre"", Dallas Liddle innovatively combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927831
SKU
V9780813927831
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About Dallas Liddle
Dallas Liddle is Associate Professor of English at Augsburg College. His articles have appeared in Victorians Institute Journal and Victorian Studies.
Reviews for The Dynamics of Genre: Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Liddle's clear, easy-to-read, and notably original study makes a major contribution to the study of Victorian periodicals. In chapters that deftly illustrate their point through close readings, Liddle demonstrates that attending to the genres of periodical writing illuminates their protocols and achievements and enables scholars to overcome the limitations of sociological generalizations about the cultural effects of journalism. Liddle sets ... Read more