Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century

<p>This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume 3 of 4 explores the subject of Authorship, Journalism and the Nineteenth-Century Press. This volume will be of great interest to students of literary history. </p> <p><strong>Volume 3. Authorship, Journalism and the Nineteenth-Century Press</strong></p><p>General introduction</p><p>Volume 3 introduction</p><p>Further Reading</p><p>Part 1. The Literary Profession </p><p>Headnote</p><p>1.1 The 1830s and 1840s: the argument for professionalisation</p><p>1. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], ‘Literature Considered as a Profession’, <i>New Monthly Magazine</i> 32 (September 1831), 227-232. </p><p>2. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], ‘Proposals for a Literary Union’, <i>New Monthly Magazine</i> 35 (November 1832), 418-422. </p><p>3. ‘Authorship as a Profession’, <i>The London Saturday Journal’</i>, 9 January 1841. 20-1. </p><p>4. ‘The Position of Literary Men’, C<i>hambers’s Journal,</i> 5 July 1845. 10-11. </p><p>5. W. M. Thackeray, ‘A brother of the press on the history of a literary man, Laman Blanchard, and the chances of the literary profession, in a letter to the Reverend Francis Sylvester at Rome, from Michael Angelo Titmarsh, Esq.’, <i>Fraser’s Magazine</i> 33 (March 1846), 332-335, 342.</p><p>6. [G. H. Lewes], ‘The Condition of Authors in England, Germany and France’, <i>Fraser’s Magazine</i> 35 (March 1847), 285-290, 293-295.</p><p>1.2 The ‘Dignity of Literature’ debate </p><p>7. W. M. Thackeray, ‘The Dignity of Literature’, <i>Morning Chronicle</i> 12 January 1850, 4. </p><p>8. [John Forster], ‘The Dignity of Literature’, <i>Examiner,</i> 19 January 1850, 35. </p><p>9. [Charles Dickens], ‘The Guild of Literature and Art’, <i>Household Words</i> 10 May 1851, 145-147. </p><p>1.3 The Professional Writer from mid-century </p><p>10. [anon], ‘The Profession of Literature’, <i>Westminster Review</i> 58 n.s. 2 (October 1852), 511-515, 518-519, 524-527. </p><p>11. [Alexander Innes Shand,], ‘The Outlying Professions’ , <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i> 136 (November 1884), 589-590. </p><p>12. Walter Besant<b>, </b>‘Literature as a Career’, <i>Review of Reviews</i> (September 1892), 258. </p><p>13. G. Herbert Thring, ‘The Society of Authors’, appendix to Walter Besant, <i>The Pen and the Book</i> (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1899), pp. 322-325.</p><p>14. ‘Literature as a Pursuit and as a Profession’, <i>Saturday Review</i> 18 November 1899, 640-641. </p><p>Part 2. Periodical Writers and Periodical Writing</p><p>Headnote </p><p>2.1 The Expansion of the Periodical Press </p><p>15. [William Hazlitt], ‘The Periodical Press’, <i>Edinburgh Review</i> 38 (May 1823), 349-350, 358-359, 377-8. </p><p>16. [James Mill], ‘Periodical Literature: Edinburgh Review I’, <i>Westminster Review</i> 1 (January 1824), 206-2011.</p><p>17. ‘Claims of Periodical Writers to Participate in the Benefits of ‘The Literary Fund’, <i>Hood’s Magazine</i> 6, 2 (August 1846), 161-164.</p><p>18. ‘Periodical Writing’, <i>Saturday Review</i> 12 February 1859, 180-181. </p><p>19. ‘Mr Sala on Life in London’, <i>Saturday Review</i> 3 December 1859, 676-677.</p><p>20. ‘The Gradations of Periodical Literature’, <i>The London Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art and Science </i>13, 24 November 1866, 567-568.</p><p>21. ‘Periodical Writers’, <i>Saturday Review</i> 25 April 1868<b>. </b>543-544. </p><p>2.2 The Higher Journalism </p><p>22. Walter Bagehot, ‘The First Edinburgh Reviewers’, <i>National Review</i> 1 (October 1855), 253-257, 271-273, 275-276.</p><p>23. Alexander Innes Shand, ‘Contemporary Literature 1. Journalists’, <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i> 124 (December 1878), 661-662. </p><p>24. Alexander Innes Shand, ‘Contemporary Literature III. Magazine Writers’, <i>Blackwood’s Magazine </i>125 (February 1879), 241-243<b>.</b></p><p>Part 3. The Profession of Journalism</p><p>Headnote</p><p>3.1 An Emerging Profession</p><p>25. ‘English Journalism’, <i>Fraser’s Magazine</i> 34 (December 1846), 632-640. </p><p>26. [James Hannay], ‘A New Type of Journalist’, <i>Pall Mall Gazette</i>, 18 February 1865, 6. </p><p>27. [Alexander Innes Shand], ‘Contemporary Literature 1. Journalists’, <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i> 124 (December 1878), 646-652.</p><p>28. [Margaret Oliphant] ‘The Old Saloon. The Literature of the Last Fifty Years’, <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i> 141 (June 1887), 761.</p><p>3.2 The 1880s and after</p><p>29. H. R. Fox Bourne, <i>English Newspapers. Chapters in the History of Journalism</i>, 2 vols. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1887), vol. 2. pp. 371-376. </p><p>30. ‘An Old Journalist’, ‘In Correspondence: The Institute of Journalists’, <i>National Review</i> 20 (October 1892), 274-278. </p><p>31. Henri Blowitz, ‘Journalism as a Profession’, <i>Contemporary Review</i> 63 (January 1893), 37-46. </p><p>32. ‘Journalism as a Profession’, <i>Review of Reviews</i> July 1894, 44.</p><p>33. Fred Wilson, ‘Journalism as a Profession’, <i>Westminster Review</i> 146 (October 1896), 433-436.</p><p>34. William Newton Shansfield, ‘Journalism as a Profession: A Rejoinder’, <i>Westminster Review</i> 146 (December 1896), 686-688. </p><p>35. Arthur Shadwell, ‘Journalism as a Profession’, <i>National Review</i> 31 (August 1898), 845-855. </p><p>36. ‘A Veteran Journalist’ [Sidney J. Low], ‘Journalism as a Career: A Reply to "Journalism as a Profession"’, <i>National Review</i> 32 (October 1898), 211-219. </p><p>37. ‘Is Journalism a Career for Men over Forty?’, <i>The Bookman</i> (January 1899), 105-109; Charles A. Cooper, <i>The Bookman</i> (February 1899), p. 131 and Charles Russell,<i> The Bookman</i> (March 1899), p. 167. </p><p>Part 4. The Fourth Estate: The Power of the Press</p><p>Headnote</p><p>38. [Gibbons Merle], ‘Journalism’, <i>Westminster Review</i> 18 (January 1833), 195-196, 198-203, 205-206. </p><p>39. [W. R. Greg], ‘The Newspaper Press’, <i>Edinburgh Review</i> 102 (October 1855), 470, 477-485, 487-489, 491-492, 496-498.<b> </b></p><p>40. [E. S. Dallas], ‘Popular Literature – the Periodical Press’, <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i> 85 (January 1859), 100-107. </p><p>41. [Fitzjames Stephen], ‘Journalism’, <i>Cornhill Magazine</i> 6 (July 1862), 52-57, 60-62. </p><p>42. W. T. Stead, ‘Government by Journalism’, <i>Contemporary Review</i> 49 (May 1886), 653-658, 660-666, 669-671, 673-674. </p><p>43. W. T. Stead, ‘The Future of Journalism’, <i>Contemporary Review</i> 50 (November 1886), 663-666, 668-672, 675-679. </p><p>Part 5. Anonymity </p><p>Headnote</p><p>44. ‘Anonymous Journalism’, <i>Saturday Review</i> 20 (November 1858), 499-500. </p><p>45. Thomas Hughes, ‘Anonymous Journalism’, <i>Macmillan’s Magazine</i> 5 (December 1861), 157-168. </p><p>46. Anthony Trollope, ‘On Anonymous Literature’, <i>Fortnightly Review</i> 1 (1 July 1865), 491-498. </p><p>47. J. Boyd Kinnear, ‘Anonymous Journalism’, <i>Contemporary Review</i> 5 (July 1867), 324-332, 337-339. </p><p>48. John Morley, ‘Anonymous Journalism’, <i>Fortnightly Review</i> 8 o.s.2 n.s. (September 1867), 289-292.</p><p>49. [Tighe Hopkins], ‘Anonymity? Part I’, <i>New Review</i> 1 (November 1889), 522-524.</p><p>50. [Tighe Hopkins], ‘Anonymity? Part II. Concl’<i>. New Review</i>, 2 (March 1890), 272-274. </p><p>Part 6. Newspaper Writers </p><p>Headnote </p><p>51. Arnot Reid, ‘Twenty-Four Hours in a Newspaper Office’, <i>Nineteenth Century</i> 21 (March 1887), 452-459. </p><p>52. Michael MacDonagh, ‘A Night in the Reporters’ Gallery’, <i>Nineteenth Century</i> 37 (March 1895), 516-523, 525-526. </p><p>53. [William Scott], ‘Our Own Correspondent’, <i>Saturday Review</i> 17 (November 1855), 44-46. </p><p>57. ‘The Special Correspondent’, <i>Saturday Review</i> (10 Sept 1870), 325-326. </p><p>55. G. A. Sala, ‘The Special Correspondent: His Life and Crimes’, <i>Belgravia: A London Magazine</i> 4 (April 1871), 214-222.</p><p>56. ‘The Special Staff’, <i>Chambers’s Journal of Literature, Science and Art</i> (11 January 1873), 17-20. </p><p>54. [Alexander Innes Shand], ‘Contemporary Literature 1. Journalists’, <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i> 124 (December 1878), 655-660. </p><p>58. W. F. Butler, W. F., ‘The War Campaign and the War Correspondent’, <i>Macmillan’s Magazine</i> 37 (March 1878,) 398-401.</p><p>59. ‘The Rise and Fall of the War Correspondent’, <i>Macmillan’s Magazine</i> 90 (August 1904), 301-310. </p><p>Part 7. The New Journalism </p><p>Headnote</p><p>60. Theodore Child, ‘The American Newspaper Press’, <i>Fortnightly Review</i> 44 o.s. 38 n.s. (December 1885), 828-839. </p><p>61. T. P. O’Connor, ‘The New Journalism’,<i> New Review</i> 1 (October 1889), 423-434. </p><p>62. Edward Delille, ‘The American Newspaper Press’, <i>Nineteenth Century</i> 32 (July 1892), 13-17, 19-28. </p><p>63. Evelyn March Phillipps, ‘The New Journalism’, <i>New Review</i> 13 (August 1895), 182-189. </p><p>64. Elizabeth L. Banks, ‘American "Yellow Journalism"’, <i>Nineteenth Century</i> 44 (August 1898), 328-340. </p><p>65. ‘Journalism Then and Now’, <i>Saturday Review</i> 8 (April 1905), 447-448.</p><p>Part 8. Women journalists</p><p>Headnote</p><p>66.<b> </b>[Charlotte O’Connor Eccles], ‘The Experiences of a Woman Journalist’, <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i> 153 (June 1893), 830-838. </p><p>67. Emily Crawford, ‘Journalism as a Profession for Women’, <i>Contemporary Review</i> 64 (September1893), 362-371. </p><p>68. Mrs Oliphant, ‘Things in General’, <i>Atalanta</i> (August 1894), 732-734. </p><p>69. Mrs Belloc Lowndes, ‘Journalism as a Profession for Women’, <i>Leisure Hour</i> (December 1901), 121-127. </p><p>70. ‘The Woman Journalist’, <i>The Academy and Literature</i> 27 September 1902, 309-310. </p><p>71. Arnold E. Bennett, <i>Journalism for Women. A Practical Guide</i> (London: John Lane. The Bodley Head, 1898), 54-55, 57-59, 69-77, 97-8]. </p><p>Part 9. Guides to Authorship and Journalism</p><p>Headnote</p><p>72. John Oldcastle, <i>Journals and Journalism: With a Guide for Literary</i> <i>Beginners </i>(London: Field and Tuer, 1880), 39-42, 44-45, 54-58. </p><p>73. E. P. Davies, <i>The Reporter’s Hand-Book and, Vade Mecum. With Appendix. By a Reporter</i> (London: Guilbert Pitman, S. W. Partridge, 1884), revised by T. A. Reed, n.d., iii-iv, 7-8, 73-74, 79</p><p>74. John Dawson, <i>Practical Journalism. How to Enter Thereon and Succeed</i> (London: Upcott Gill, 1885) Originally published in <i>The Bazaar</i>, 1884, 2-5, 46-49.</p><p>75. A. Arthur Reade, <i>Literary Success: being a Guide to Practical Journalism</i> (London: Wyman & Sons, 1885), 104-105, 111-112, 132-133, 135-136.</p><p>76. S. Squire Sprigge, <i>Methods of Publishing </i>(Society of Authors. London: Henry Glaisher, 1890), 10-15.</p><p>77. Walter Besant, <i>The Pen and the Book</i> (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1899), v-viii, 20-25, 238-241. </p>