The Making of English Reading Audiences, 1790-1832

Parodia al estilo editorial y periodístico en "Warreniana"

“…También defiende el interés en los periódicos de la era romántica el crítico Klancher (1987) en su examen del público lector de la época romántica donde denuncia la falta de estudio sobre el tema ("still largely unknown world of textmaking", ix) y deja clara la importante exposición de la clase media intelectual en tales obras. Define cuatro tipos de audiencias que denomina estratégicamente cruciales: "a newly self-conscious middle-class public, a nascent mass audience, a polemical radical readership, and the special institutional audience −what Coleridge called the clerisy" (4).…”

“…Además, la parodia en este entorno periodístico resulta esencial por cuanto que potencia, difunde y hace circular los rasgos propios del género de la prensa unidos a los de la producción literaria. Warreniana y su parodia cumplen así con creces con las estrategias señaladas por Klancher (1987) para la prensa, entre las que opera continuamente: "dissemitation" y "circulation".…”

Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press

“…204 Jon Klancher has argued that Blackwood's writers continually rhetorically gesture towards an '"inaccessible nucleus" of meaning' that is 'beyond the grasp of verbal signs', presenting readers with an 'ever-receding Mind just beyond its grasp'. 205 Such hermeneutic illusiveness presents potential diffi culties for a profession devoted to ever-increasing legibility of the signs of the body and the mind. However, one key driver of Blackwood's medico-popular writing was the reclamation of phenomena beyond the grasp of the anatomy table or the statisticians' tabulations.…”

“…206 Klancher also discusses a negative hermeneutic active in Blackwood's, in which 'the social mind forms and collapses distinctions, the power of its critical act becoming the measure of its own distinction from all the social signs it encounters'. 207 The medical profession -defi ned by its powers of interpreting the otherness of disease and deviance -contributed to this hermeneutic. Forensic medicine and phrenology were sign-reading methodologies capable of diagnosing deviance and perhaps even of understanding national character.…”

"The Character of Editress": Marian Evans at the Westminster Review , 1851-54

“…Altogether, we are reminded of the "stylistic and semiotic modes of carving out readerships," as Jon Klancher has put it, that were part of the editor's brief. 61 In making this shift from attending to design rather than just content, we are alerted to the need to provide more contextualized assessment of individual articles or the work of individual periodical writers to emphasize, again, the corporate character of the periodical press.…”