Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street

TY - BOOK

T1 - Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street

T2 - The Print Culture of a Victorian Street

AU - Shannon, Mary

PY - 2015/4/28

Y1 - 2015/4/28

N2 - This book focuses on a street in mid nineteenth-century London, Wellington Street. I discuss, for the first time, the proximity of the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds, and Henry Mayhew, in mid 19th-century London. Wellington Street (home to nearly thirty newspapers and periodicals, as well as a theatre and the musical and theatrical press) was a highly significant location for metropolitan and imperial print culture because it was a hub of relationships, influences and connections between writers, booksellers, editors, publishers, theatre managers and audiences, and readers. I argue that physical proximity within the city reinforced important mid-century print networks. The book uses archival research, literary criticism, and literary geography to explore Wellington Street at different times of the day and to reveal the ways in which its print networks fostered connections between the discourses of journalism, literature, and drama. It reassesses the intersection between print culture, popular culture, the built environment and urban experience, and reveals the links between Wellington Street and the print culture of colonial Melbourne.

AB - This book focuses on a street in mid nineteenth-century London, Wellington Street. I discuss, for the first time, the proximity of the offices of Charles Dickens, G.W.M. Reynolds, and Henry Mayhew, in mid 19th-century London. Wellington Street (home to nearly thirty newspapers and periodicals, as well as a theatre and the musical and theatrical press) was a highly significant location for metropolitan and imperial print culture because it was a hub of relationships, influences and connections between writers, booksellers, editors, publishers, theatre managers and audiences, and readers. I argue that physical proximity within the city reinforced important mid-century print networks. The book uses archival research, literary criticism, and literary geography to explore Wellington Street at different times of the day and to reveal the ways in which its print networks fostered connections between the discourses of journalism, literature, and drama. It reassesses the intersection between print culture, popular culture, the built environment and urban experience, and reveals the links between Wellington Street and the print culture of colonial Melbourne.

M3 - Book

SN - 9781472442048

SN - 9780367880309

BT - Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street

PB - Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group

ER -