Journalism, Literature and Modernity

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748621026); Reviews of the hardback edition: 'A meticulously detailed and thought-provoking look at Grub Street.' Times Literary Supplement 'All the essays have insightful things to say about their individual authors as writers for the periodical press.' Media History 'An effective geneaology of modern journalism from the early nineteenth century through to the 1930s.' Sally Ledger, Birkbeck College Journalism has often been disregarded or represented as 'o