Newspaper Poems: Material Texts in the Public Sphere

Houston, Natalie M.

doi:10.2979/vic.2008.50.2.233

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“…111 Different genres, such as poems or sports results, might indeed be presented in ways that made them stand out from the surrounding news reports, as if suggesting a comparatively 'slower pace of life'. 112 But they were nonetheless all contained within the all-encompassing secular simultaneity embodied by the page itself, where a single glance could capture several otherwise unrelated events and movements.…”

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News: The Pursuit of Immediacy

Fisher-Høyrem

2022

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

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Underpinning the Victorian public sphere was a network characterized by an intense pursuit of immediacy. By creating an abstract and ‘empty’ space where the public might observe and participate in ongoing events on a societal scale, this network served to establish public opinion as a source of political legitimacy. The telegraph, the development of professional journalistic skill sets, and the extraction of colonial natural resources made it possible to extend the news network beyond regional and national borders. The uniform typographical ‘form of news’ characterizing Victorian daily newspapers was an effect of specific technological adjustments needed to move newsworthy events across vast distances without interruption or distortion. In this way, the news network mediated a secular time independent of motion.

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News: The Pursuit of Immediacy

Fisher-Høyrem

2022

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England

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“…This meant these commercial and official notices were as much a part of the reception context for popular poetry as the journalistic writing that has hitherto attracted the attention of scholars interested in analysing the specific discourses surrounding newspaper poetry. 36 One of the more substantial metropolitan emigration lyrics to be reprinted in the colonies was Thomas Campbell's 'Lines On The Departure Of Emigrants For New South Wales' (Figure 5). Published in the New Monthly Magazine in June 1829 and reprinted in the Sydney Gazette early the following year, signed and fully attributed, Campbell's poem represents colonisation in terms of metaphors of domestic virtue, and ultimately as a form of quasi-heroic liberal self-assertion.…”

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(Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics of Emigration in the 1820s Southern Settler Colonies

Atkin

2022

Remediating the 1820s

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Poetry played a vital role in establishing the sense of community inherent in the settler-colonialism of the nineteenth century. This essay contends that localising the poetry of emigration to reflect the conditions of colonial settlement was more than just a question of cultural replication and adaptation. Drawing on a previously unexamined archive of original and reprinted verse from the newspapers of the Cape Colony and Australia (Van Dieman’s Land and New South Wales), this paper reveals the work that reprinted emigration verse did in the labour of community building in which the settler press was actively and vocally engaged during the 1820s. By restoring these poems to their original publication contexts alongside lead articles, correspondence and advertising, this chapter argues that metropolitan emigration poetry could be re-framed by canny colonial newspaper editors through editorial headnotes and judicious juxtaposition. It shows that editors frequently encouraged colonists to read metropolitan emigration poetry against the grain as part of a deliberately constructed counter-discourse that drew the attention of colonial and metropolitan readers to the disjuncture between metropolitan representations of emigration and the material realities of colonial life.

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Periodical Poetry

Peterson¹

2017

Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Newspaper Poems: Material Texts in the Public Sphere

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

News: The Pursuit of Immediacy

News: The Pursuit of Immediacy

(Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics of Emigration in the 1820s Southern Settler Colonies

Periodical Poetry

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