George Augustus Sala and the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: The Personal Style of a Public Writer

by Peter Blake

Book Overview

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Sala's personal style, along with his innovations in form, influenced the New Journalism at the end of the nineteenth century. Blake places Sala at the centre of nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals and examines his prolific contributions to newspapers and periodicals in the context of contemporary debates and issues surrounding his work. Sala's journalistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367879999
• ISBN13: 9780367879990
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"