Queen Victoria
First Media Monarch
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 March 2003
- ISBN 9780199253920
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages268 pages
- Size 250x170x20 mm
- Weight 627 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
John Plunkett presents the first history of the interaction between the monarchy and the media to focus on the reign of Queen Victoria. He argues that the development of popular print and visual media in the nineteenth century helped to reinvent the position of the monarchy in national life, and includes a detailed account of the emergence of royal journalism and the impact of new media such as photography.
MoreLong description:
The nineteenth century saw the arrival of the mass media: high-volume illustrated newspapers and magazines, photography, and the telegraph which connected every part of the Empire. From the beginning, royalty was an essential subject for the media; Victoria's reign was documented in a detail never known before: her accession and coronation, her very public marriage, her travels at home and abroad, her Jubilees, and ultimately her death and funeral.
John Plunkett's book is the first to study the role of the media in Queen Victoria's reign. He argues that the development of popular print and visual media in the nineteenth century helped to reinvent the position of the monarchy in national life. He reveals how the royal family was one of the principal beneficiaries of the growth of cheap newspapers and illustrated periodicals and the advent of new media. He brings to light a wealth of previously unexamined material, including a detailed account of the emergence of royal journalism and the role of functionaries like the Court Newsman, and shows how photographs of Victoria were routinely retouched and manipulated in the latter decades of the century.
... fascinating new book ... Plunkett has given us an extensively researched, carefully argued and eminently readable study.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Civic Publicness: Popular Politics and Victoria's Royal Role
Royal Portraiture and Graphic Media 1837-1860
Of Hype and Type
Exposing the Monarchy: Photography and the Royal Family
Reporting Royalty: from Penny-a-liners to Special Correspondents
Conclusion
Appendix One
Further Reading
Index
