Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain

RT @Marie_LSJ: @DrNHetherington @RichardsonA_M @EsserHelena @maddohere @EHaugtvedt "The power of illustration seems forgotten nowadays that…

@DrNHetherington @RichardsonA_M @EsserHelena @maddohere @EHaugtvedt "The power of illustration seems forgotten nowadays that adult literacy in England is 97% rather than roughly 60% around 1840 (41 % among working classes)." [D.F. Mitch, The Rise of Popula

@MercedesSheldon Do you consider penny dreadfuls as periodicals? In this book chapter, I talk about reading them week by week through the illustrations in shop windows, like I followed gossip looking only at the cover of gossip magazines when I used to go

RT @Marie_LSJ: Twitter! I forgot to tell you my chapter on reading illustrations exposed in shop-windows was out! cf @AnnaGDreadful @paulra…