: Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England . Kevin Gilmartin.

1998 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-399
Author(s):  
Helen Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Press

scholarly journals THE NAUTICAL MELODRAMA OFMARY BARTON

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Robert Burroughs
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Press ◽  
Amateur Theatricals ◽  
A Performance

In hisMemoirs of anUnfortunate Son of Thespis(1818), the actor Edward Cape Everard recalled a performance of Sheridan'sSchool for Scandalthat was interrupted in its third act by a rowdy bunch of sailors. At the sight of Charles Surface drinking, the sailors allegedly left the auditorium, entered the stage, and accosted the actor playing Charles, “exclaiming ‘My eyes, you're a hearty fellow! Come, my tight one, hand us a glass’” (qtd. in Russell 104). As apocryphal as the encounter seems, it is not the only account of mariners rushing the early-nineteenth century stage to join in with the drama. In her analysis of these anecdotes Gillian Russell comments that though they may have been intended to depict the sailor “as naïve and unsophisticated, unable to make the distinction between fiction and reality. . . it is not surprising that the sailor should have disregarded the rules of mimesis and the distinction between stage and auditorium” (104), for the sailor's life lent itself to, and was structured by, theatricality. Service in “the theatres of war,” or more generally in the “wooden world” of the ship, demanded strict performance of custom and ritual in the forging of social identities and relations, not least of all in the ritualistic initiation ceremonies and corporal punishments that were enacted in front of the amassed audience of the crew (Russell 139–57; see Dening). At sea and in dock sailors entertained themselves with amateur theatricals. On shore, they were keen theatre-goers, and in auditoriums and elsewhere they played up to the characteristics of the sailor in the brazen assertion of an identity that was celebrated in stories, songs, and plays, but frequently also belittled, bemoaned, and victimized, the latter particularly while the press gangs were active.

Advertising and the Press in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: James Perry and the Morning Chronicle 1790–1821

1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivon Asquith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Classical Liberal ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
The Press ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capital Value

The thirty years during which James Perry owned and edited the Morning Chronicle, the leading Whig daily newspaper, were marked by important developments in the history of the press. In the early nineteenth century there was a notable growth in the spirit of political independence among newspaper proprietors, and they developed the classical liberal roles of the press: die impartial dissemination of news and the expression of public opinion. Professional editors and reporters came to replace the old all-rounders like William Woodfall who had combined the tasks of printing, editing and reporting; and individual proprietors supplanted the unenterprising ownership of syndicates. There was a rapid expansion in the number of daily evening and of Sunday papers and, though the number of daily morning papers remained fairly stable, dieir circulation increased steadily after about 1800. A well-conducted newspaper could serve, not simply as a side-product of a printer's or bookseller's business, or as an advertising medium for its proprietors' interests, but as a lucrative business venture in its own right. There was an extraordinary rise in the capital value of successful newspapers: the Morning Chronicle and the Morning Post, which were bought for a few hundred pounds each in die 1790s, were sold for £42,000 and £25,000 respectively in the early nineteenth century. Despite the heavy weight of taxation, which was successfully designed to restrict the sale of newspapers, proprietors were able to prosper thanks to die increasing profits diey made on advertisements. It has now been possible to calculate, from the ledgers of die Public Advertiser and Gazetteer, and from the office copies of the Morning Chronicle, some part of a newspaper's profits from advertising in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

What's Not in On Liberty: The Pacific Theory of Freedom of Discussion in the Early Nineteenth Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Conti
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Press ◽  
Economic Markets ◽  
History Of ◽  
Liberal Thought ◽  
Number Of Authors

AbstractIt is often assumed that John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) is representative of the major lines of thought on the freedoms of discussion and the press in the period. In fact, however, Mill's treatise was selective about the kinds of reasons it admitted in support of these liberties. This essay depicts one set of arguments that Mill omitted and that has subsequently been overlooked in the history of political thought. An important element of liberal thought in early nineteenth-century Britain was that the liberty of the press made indispensable contributions to domestic peace and stability. These pacific arguments were elaborated in a wide variety of forms by a number of authors. More specifically, the view that unrestricted liberty of discussion was necessary for peace and political stability drew on an older tradition of thinking about religious toleration as well as newer ideas about the functioning of economic markets and the place of public opinion in the politics of modern societies. In the hands of its proponents, the view assumed psychological, historical, sociological, or metaphysical dimensions. Even though prominent thinkers, including his own father, were associated with this pacific outlook on the liberty of the press, John Stuart Mill rejected it both as an empirically dubious proposition and as an insufficient moral basis on which to build an enduring commitment to open public discussion.

Common Misperceptions: The Press and Victorian Views of Crime

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Casey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Criminal Punishment ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Press ◽  
Drastic Increase ◽  
The Times

After a string of successes in the early nineteenth century, the Victorian movement to reform criminal punishment began to falter. Despite evidence to the contrary, the populace grew convinced that violent crime was on the rise. A frequency analysis of The Times and The Manchester Guardian suggests that this misperception was due to a drastic increase in crime coverage by the periodicals of the day.

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