• 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

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).

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.