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Victorian Newspapers, Journals, Ads, and Serial Fiction

Victorian Newspapers, Journals, Ads, and Serial Fiction. Presented by: Andy Strotman and Mark Bugada. Broadsides. “Poor People’s newspaper” Written as ballads “Gallows Literature” Sold by “platters”. Sensationalism. Provoked public interest/excitement Stories were often exaggerations

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Victorian Newspapers, Journals, Ads, and Serial Fiction

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  1. Victorian Newspapers, Journals, Ads, and Serial Fiction Presented by: Andy Strotman and Mark Bugada

  2. Broadsides • “Poor People’s newspaper” • Written as ballads • “Gallows Literature” • Sold by “platters”

  3. Sensationalism • Provoked public interest/excitement • Stories were often exaggerations • Sensationalist Novel (1860-1880) Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Braddon

  4. Serial Fiction • Published in installments • Gave lower classes opportunity to read • Cliffhangers

  5. Victorian People • Magazines, newspapers, novels, sporting news, scandals • Most = poor • Taxes on periodical withdrawn

  6. All the Year Round • Published by Dickens • Household Words • Focus: Serialized works • Cost: tuppenny • Contained serial installments

  7. The Illustrated London News • Illustrated, weekly magazine • Reported special events • “Serials” • Illustrations on everyday aspects

  8. Satire • Gentle form of criticism • Used to address social & political issues

  9. Punch • Illustrated magazine of humor • Used satire to attack political subjects

  10. Penny Dreadfuls • Type of serial fiction • Costing a penny • Aimed at teenagers • AKA: • Penny Bloods • Blood and Thunders

  11. Works Cited • Allingham, Philip V. "All the Year Round." Victorian Web. <http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/punch/pva44.html>. Web. 11 September 2012. • Allingham, Philip V. "An Introduction to The Illustrated London News." Victorian Web. <http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/iln/intro.html>. Web. 11 September 2012. • Allingham, Philip V. "Chapter Three: Cases and Classes: Sensational Suicides and Their Interpreters." Victorian Web. <http://www.victorianweb.org/books/suicide/03.html#broadsides>. Web. 11 September 2012. • Allingham, Philip V. "Punch, or the London Charivari (1841-1992) — A British Institution." Victorian Web. <http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/punch/pva44.html>. Web. 5 September 2012. • Allingham, Philip V. "The Victorian Sensation Novel, 1860-1880 – ‘preaching to the nerves instead of the judgment’." Victorian Web. <http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/sensation.html>. Web. 11 September 2012. • "Dictionary - Definition of Penny Dreadful." Dictionary - Definition of Penny Dreadful. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2012. <http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/penny%20dreadful>. • "Guides to the Gallows." Harvard Gazette. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Sept. 2012. <http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/08/guides-to-the-gallows/>. • "Images of the Victorian Book: Penny Dreadfuls." Images of the Victorian Book: Penny Dreadfuls. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Sept. 2012. <http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/pu_penny.html>. • "Satire." Reference.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Sept. 2012. <http://www.reference.com/browse/satire>. • "Sensationalism (sen|sa¦tion¦al|ism) Pronunciation: /sÉnËseɪÊ(É)n(É)lɪz(É)m/." Definition of Sensationalism. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Sept. 2012. <http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sensationalism>.

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