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The Punch brotherhood : table talk and print culture in Mid-Victorian London
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- Creator
- Patrick Leary
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : The British Library, 2010
- Physical Details
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- x, 197 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780712363662, 0712309233, 9780712309233, 0712363661
- OCLC
- ocn457149405, ocn925450320
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-192) and index.
- Introduction. Mister Punch and the historians ; Oral culture, print culture ; Community and production -- The brotherhood of the Punch table. The evolution of the dinner meeting ; The early staff at table, 1843-1857 ; Henry Silver and his diary, 1858-1870 -- Cartoons and conversations : the large cut. Many voices ; Imagining the reader ; Following the news ; Give and take -- Gossip and the literary life. Literary success and literary talk ; Swinburne : scandal and judgment ; The Bohemians -- Town talk : Dickens, Thackeray, and the policing of gossip. The great rivalry ; Dickens and gossip : 'amazing slanders' ; The 'personal statement' and its consequences ; The Garrick affair : 'printing comments upon my private conversation' ; The committee ; 'The Garrick is in convulsions' ; 'Wheels within wheels' -- Shirley Brooks and the flight from Bohemia. 'A scrambling, uncertain life' : the struggle for respectability ; The Tory journalist and the 'grown up' Punch ; 'I mount a good many guns' : the exercise of influence ; 'The important purpose of my life' : the fragility of success -- Bradbury and Evans and the personal politics of print culture. Bradbury and Evans before Punch : master printers ; Punch before Bradbury and Evans : 'we must have cash!' ; Punch after Bradbury and Evans : the capitalization of sociability ; Talk, fellowship, and production ; Sales, profit, and friendship ; From printer-proprietors to publishers ; Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix : the Henry Silver 'diary.'