The Provincial Press and the Imperial Traffic in Fiction, 1870s–1930s

Hilliard, Christopher

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“…12 More common were serials and individual stories supplied by overseas syndication agencies, especially the English firm of Tillottson's. 13 These tended to the formulaic, in the genres of light romance, detective yarns and sensational adventure or 'blood and thunder' stories.…”

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‘In the distance a light?’ – Contemporary Spanish Civil War Writing in New Zealand

Derby¹

2011

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“…G. W. M. Reynolds likewise published the century’s most widely read series The Mysteries of London and its sequel for more than a decade in weekly penny numbers sold in tobacconists’ shops. Serial fiction reached the provincial press and even markets overseas through newspaper syndication agencies such as Tillotsons’ Fiction Bureau (Hilliard 653; Law 41). Anthony Trollope – who both published novels in serial form and presided over their publication as the editor of Saint Pauls magazine – avowed that ‘the monthly periodicals afford to the reading public the greatest part of the modern literature which it demands’ (Trollope 2).…”

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Victorian Print Culture, Journalism and the Novel

Rubery

2010

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A number of studies have challenged the divide between Victorian literature and journalism in recent years by rethinking the relationship between enduring literary genres such as the novel and ephemeral forms of print including newspapers and magazines. This essay identifies the key ways in which studies in print culture and book history have revised our understanding of the 19th‐century literary marketplace by identifying a high degree of interaction between the era’s literature and journalism. The essay begins with an introduction to print culture as a field of research that has challenged the narrow literary focus of Victorian studies by expanding its borders to include the eclectic assortment of journalistic writing representative of the 19th century. It then considers how the development of digital archives has improved access to the full range of reading materials once available to audiences. The essay concludes with an assessment of how attention to the entire spectrum of print consumed by the reading public has inspired a critical revaluation of the relationship between journalism and the Victorian novel.

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“…7 Some of this was bought from well-known international authors, most likely through the syndication agencies such as Tillotson's Fiction Bureau, which were an important part of the globalised circulation of popular fiction. 8 Other stories were by professional Irish writers, including Rosa Mulholland and Katherine Tynan, for whom the Irish story papers were obviously an important and regular outlet for their work. Still others were submitted by readers as entries to the extremely popular story competitions run by most of these papers -the popular eagerness to write as well as read fiction being one more indication of the 'rage for narrative' represented by the story papers and cheap books of the early twentieth century.…”

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‘Nauseous Tides of Seductive Debauchery’: Irish Story Papers and the Anti-Vice Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century

Rains¹

2015

Irish University Review

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This essay explores the relationship between anti-vice campaigns and the popular publishing industry of early-twentieth century Ireland. Specifically, it argues that there existed an informal but strongly symbiotic relationship between the two. The Irish anti-vice campaigns emphasised their objections to imported ‘pernicious literature’ in the form of British newspapers and story papers, thus allying themselves with both religious and nationalist movements of the time in Ireland. The Irish popular press, especially the story papers in direct and unequal competition with their large-scale British equivalents such as the Boys Own Paper, were able to use these moral attacks upon their competitors to position themselves as alternative leisure reading which was both wholesome and patriotic. This essay examines the ways in which Irish story papers such as the Emerald and Ireland's Own were able to use social purity rhetoric as a marketing technique against their British competitors. This occurred even though, as the essay outlines, in many cases the content of their stories was equally sensationalist and also had a strong emphasis upon violence, lurid plotlines and sometimes even sexually-suggestive advertising. Despite this, the anti-vice campaigns reserved their condemnations almost entirely for British publications, thus maintaining a co-operation with Irish publications which benefitted both parties.

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The Provincial Press and the Imperial Traffic in Fiction, 1870s–1930s

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

‘In the distance a light?’ – Contemporary Spanish Civil War Writing in New Zealand

‘In the distance a light?’ – Contemporary Spanish Civil War Writing in New Zealand

Victorian Print Culture, Journalism and the Novel

‘Nauseous Tides of Seductive Debauchery’: Irish Story Papers and the Anti-Vice Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century

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