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Wellington Street, Strand

其他書名	The Print Culture of a Victorian Street
出版	King's College London, 2012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2pLYnQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Recent work on networks within nineteenth-century print culture has focused on how male and female networks function, and how networks operate around one title or one publisher. This thesis, however, investigates how networks of writers, editors, journalists, and publishers intersected between and across titles and social circles. It approaches this by showing how networks within print culture operated on the ground, through the example of a London street c. 1843-1853: Wellington Street, Strand. Using detailed archival research and drawing upon historical and cultural geography, this thesis argues that the experience of Dickens and his contemporaries on Wellington Street was one of working in a remarkably interconnected community, made up of interlocking networks. It argues that physical proximity in the city reinforced print networks, and that this experience of print networks led Dickens and others to represent their readers as part of an imagined network of print. It offers new readings of texts produced by Wellington Street writers, including Household Words, London Labour and the London Poor, and The Mysteries of London. It uncovers Wellington Street's links with nineteenth-century Collins Street, in colonial Melbourne, to show that the virtual space of print networks extended to writers and readers across the Empire. The thesis concludes with a reading of Bleak House as a novel which emerged out of Dickens's experience of a world of coincidences, connections, and networks. The thesis shows how print culture was always fluid and in motion around the clock, and develops our understanding of the links between fiction, drama, and journalism. To further this end, the chapters are arranged thematically and according to times of the day. I show how an understanding of everyday working practices for mid nineteenth-century journalists and writers is crucial to any analysis of their written work.