Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850–1950 Hampton Hardback John Wiley & Sons

Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950Author(s): Mark Hampton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252029462, 978-0252029462\nSynopsis\nHistorians recognize the cultural centrality of the newspaper press in Britain, yet very little has been published regarding competing historical understandings of the press and its proper role in British society. In Visions of the Press in Britain, [tel], Mark Hampton argues that qualities expected of the contemporary British press--lively writing, speed, impartiality, depth, and the ability to topple corrupt governments by informing readers--are not obvious attributes of journalism but derive from more than a century of debate. He analyzes the various historical conceptions of the British press that helped to create its modern role, and demonstrates that these conceptions were intimately involved in the emergence of mass democracy in the late nineteenth an.