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Pre-publication discount for Charles Dickens and the Mid Victorian Press
Papers from the proceedings of the Dickens Journals Online Conference held in March 2012.
This title will be published in May priced £25.
Early orders prior to April 30th will be discounted to £22.50
Edited by Hazel Mackenzie and Ben Winyard
Introduction by John Drew
Foreword by Michael Slater
With the phenomenally popular weekly magazines Household Words and All the Year Round Charles Dickens effectively re-invented periodical literature in the nineteenth century. Already enjoying huge stature as a world-famous author, Dickens was often the principal contributor of the journals that carried the novels serialised within them. As, by his own term, the“conductor” of the weekly magazines, he was able to direct the gaze of his readership, easily eliding fiction and non fiction, to those things that most concerned him – poverty, crime, education, public health, popular culture, and social welfare and reform.
This collection of new essays from a rich variety of contributors, explores the journalism and fiction in Household Words and All Year Round and their relationship to the wider publishing world. The essays were presented at the Dickens Journals Online Conference launched in March 2012.
ISBN 9781908684202
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Papers from the proceedings of the Dickens Journals Online Conference held in March 2012.
This title will be published in May priced £25.
Early orders prior to April 30th will be discounted to £22.50
Edited by Hazel Mackenzie and Ben Winyard
Introduction by John Drew
Foreword by Michael Slater
With the phenomenally popular weekly magazines Household Words and All the Year Round Charles Dickens effectively re-invented periodical literature in the nineteenth century. Already enjoying huge stature as a world-famous author, Dickens was often the principal contributor of the journals that carried the novels serialised within them. As, by his own term, the“conductor” of the weekly magazines, he was able to direct the gaze of his readership, easily eliding fiction and non fiction, to those things that most concerned him – poverty, crime, education, public health, popular culture, and social welfare and reform.
This collection of new essays from a rich variety of contributors, explores the journalism and fiction in Household Words and All Year Round and their relationship to the wider publishing world. The essays were presented at the Dickens Journals Online Conference launched in March 2012.
ISBN 9781908684202
To pre-order and pay for this title at the discounted price of £22.50, click Add to Cart
Defying Decrepitude by Sir Alan Peacock
One of our most distinguished economists, Sir Alan Peacock is also a nonagenarian. As an academic and former civil servant he is well placed to analyse the costs and benefits of retirement, and the courses of action that we can take in anticipation of a lengthening lifespan. In trying to make sense of old age by writing of his later life and memoirs, he acknowledges The Maxims of Francois, Duc de La. Rochefoucauld, and views life’s later stages and travails with a wry and clear-eyed detachment.
Unafraid to grasp the realities of the decline of physical independence he steers us through medical practice, bureaucracy and “healthspeak” as well as loss and bereavement. His often light-hearted personal anecdotes reveal a serious point, one being that the ageing are also assume a growing responsibility for the aged.
Sir Alan Peacock is one of the better known British economists of recent times. He has combined an academic career with activist engagement in policy, and is probably best known for The Peacock Report on the Financing of the BBC (1986). He has been successively a wartime sailor (1942–45); reader in public finance at the London School of Economics (1951–56); professor of economics in four major universities (1957 to date); a senior civil servant as chief economic adviser to the Department of Trade and Industry (1973–76); principal and then vice chancellor (president) of Britain's only independent university, Buckingham (1979–85); and consultant and adviser to a wide range of international agencies, governments and professional bodies. Now a professor emeritus, he is an honorary professor in public finance at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University.
His contributions to economics and to public affairs have been recognised by eleven honorary degrees, fellowships of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and the Italian National Academy. He was awarded the Royal Medal of the RSE in 2002, having previously been knighted for public service in 1987.
ISBN 9781908684257
One of our most distinguished economists, Sir Alan Peacock is also a nonagenarian. As an academic and former civil servant he is well placed to analyse the costs and benefits of retirement, and the courses of action that we can take in anticipation of a lengthening lifespan. In trying to make sense of old age by writing of his later life and memoirs, he acknowledges The Maxims of Francois, Duc de La. Rochefoucauld, and views life’s later stages and travails with a wry and clear-eyed detachment.
Unafraid to grasp the realities of the decline of physical independence he steers us through medical practice, bureaucracy and “healthspeak” as well as loss and bereavement. His often light-hearted personal anecdotes reveal a serious point, one being that the ageing are also assume a growing responsibility for the aged.
Sir Alan Peacock is one of the better known British economists of recent times. He has combined an academic career with activist engagement in policy, and is probably best known for The Peacock Report on the Financing of the BBC (1986). He has been successively a wartime sailor (1942–45); reader in public finance at the London School of Economics (1951–56); professor of economics in four major universities (1957 to date); a senior civil servant as chief economic adviser to the Department of Trade and Industry (1973–76); principal and then vice chancellor (president) of Britain's only independent university, Buckingham (1979–85); and consultant and adviser to a wide range of international agencies, governments and professional bodies. Now a professor emeritus, he is an honorary professor in public finance at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University.
His contributions to economics and to public affairs have been recognised by eleven honorary degrees, fellowships of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and the Italian National Academy. He was awarded the Royal Medal of the RSE in 2002, having previously been knighted for public service in 1987.
ISBN 9781908684257
