Review
“In exploring what the nineteenth-century novel learned from the newspapers, Matthew Rubery also uncovers how private lives unfolded in a changing public sphere. Sensitive to feeling, attentive to form, The Novelty of Newspapers exemplifies the study of print culture at its very best.”-Amanda Claybaugh, Columbia University”Matthew Rubery’s stylish, lively and richly researched book obliges us to re-examine Walter Benjamin’s claim that the rise of the commercial newspaper p (more…)

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