Reviews outside the usual places: daily newspaper reviews of Edith Wharton in Edwardian Britain

Palmer, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-3006-7578, 2023. Reviews outside the usual places: daily newspaper reviews of Edith Wharton in Edwardian Britain. Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, 14 (1), pp. 70-89. ISSN 1947-6574

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Abstract

The accessibility of digitized newspapers creates an opportunity to trace middlebrow taste. The style and substance of newspaper reviews began to diverge from magazine reviews late in the nineteenth century. Newspaper reviews became short, chatty, personal, and targeted toward the leisured reader. Self-consciously, reviewers mourned unhappy endings, complained about long factual expositions, or criticized plots on the grounds of implausibility. We can see this shift in critical discourse if we compare the British newspaper and magazine reviews from the mid nineteenth century to reviews of Edith Wharton's early short story collections, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies
Creators: Palmer, S.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Date: July 2023
Volume: 14
Number: 1
ISSN: 1947-6574
Identifiers:
NumberType
10.5325/jmodeperistud.14.1.0070DOI
1641256Other
Divisions: Schools > School of Arts and Humanities
Record created by: Laura Ward
Date Added: 09 Feb 2023 13:55
Last Modified: 15 Aug 2023 15:17
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URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48226

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