Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface 1
4. Chapter 1. English news discourse from newsbooks to new media 3
5. Part I. Changing or maintaining conventions?
6. Chapter 2. Of hopes and plans 15
7. Chapter 3. Religious lexis and political ideology in English Civil War newsbooks 39
8. Chapter 4. Contemporary observations on the attention value and selling power of English print advertisements (1700–1760) 61
9. Chapter 5. A modest proposal in The Gentleman’s Magazine 81
10. Chapter 6. Lexical bundles in news discourse 1784–1983 97
11. Part II. Widening audiences
12. Chapter 7. British popular newspaper traditions 119
13. Chapter 8. The Poor Man’s Guardian 137
14. Chapter 9. Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines 157
15. Chapter 10. From adverts to letters to the editor 175
16. Chapter 11. The public identity of Jack the Ripper in late nineteenth-century British newspapers 199
17. Part III. New practices
18. Chapter 12. Narrative vs. “objective” style 219
19. Chapter 13. Astride two worlds 241
20. Chapter 14. Newspaper funnies at the dawn of modernity 267
21. Index 295