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Leary, Patrick. The Punch Brotherhood: Table talk and print culture in mid-victorian london. London: British Library, 2010. Added by: joachim (7/15/14, 1:43 PM) |
Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9780712309233 BibTeX citation key: Leary2010 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Punch", Early forms of comics, Publishing, United Kingdom Creators: Leary Publisher: British Library (London) Collection: |
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Deep in the recesses of the British Library sits a long oval dining table of plain deal, its battered surface deeply scored with crudely carved initials. This unprepossessing piece of furniture was once the most famous table in London: the legendary Punch Table, where the staff of the most successful and influential comic magazine the English-speaking world has ever seen gathered every week for decades. Based on extensive research among unpublished letters, diaries, minute books, and business records, The Punch Brotherhood takes the reader inside this Victorian institution, bringing to life the tightly-knit community of writers, artists, and proprietors who gathered around the Punch Table, and their tumultuous, uninhibited conversations, spiced with jokes and gossip. Highlighting the role of talk in the understanding of nineteenth-century print culture, and shedding new light on the careers of literary giants Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray and of the many lesser authors who laboured in their shadow, this ground-breaking study vividly demonstrates how oral culture permeated and shaped the realm of print, from the dining tables of exclusive men’s clubs to the alleyways of Fleet Street.
Table of Contents List of Figures (vii) Introduction (1) Chapter 1: The Brotherhood of the Punch Table (10) Chapter 2: Cartoons and Conversations: The Large Cut (35) Chapter 3: Gossip and the Literary Life (57) Chapter 4: Town Talk: Dickens, Thackeray, and the Policing of Gossip (79) Chapter 5: Shirley Brooks and the Flight from Bohemia (110) Chapter 6: Bradbury and Evans and the Personal Politics of Print Culture (133) Epilogue (173) Appendix: The Henry Silver ‘Diary’ (178) Select Bibliography (181) |
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