The Novelty of Newspapers explains why the Victorian novel is best understood alongside the simultaneous development of the news as a commercial commodity read by up to a million readers per day.

Matthew Rubery is a Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the editor or coeditor of Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies (Routledge, 2011) and Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism (Broadview, 2012).

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Introduction: The Age of Newspapers
Newspapers in Different Voices
A Nation of News Readers
A Newspaperized World
PART I: THE FRONT PAGE
1. THE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
Shipwrecks and Secret Tears from Dickens to Stoker
The Latest Shipping Intelligence
Why Victorian Heroines Read the Shipping News
Shipwreck Spine
Secret Tears for Ships Lost at Sea
2. THE PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Advertisements, the Agony Column, and Sensation Novels of the 1860s
The Short History of a Miserable Life
A Double State of Existence
The Sensation Novel in Embryo
PART II: THE INNER PAGES
3. THE LEADING ARTICLE
The Whispering Conscience in Trollope's Palliser Novels
A Horror of Newspaper Men
Thunderbolts from Mount Olympus
Trollope's Whispering Conscience
The Promise of Big Type in the Morning
4. THE PERSONAL INTERVIEW
Wishing to Be Interviewed in Henry James
Interviewed!
The Rise of the Interview Society
James's Overhearing Audience
The Age of Interviewing
5. THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE
Conrad's "Wild Story of a Journalist"
Brains Pulsating to the Rhythm of Journalistic Phrases
Stanley's Journalism by Warfare
Kurtz's Letters from Africa
Conclusion: The Back Page
Notes
Bibliography
Index