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100 1 $aLeary, Patrick.
245 14 $aThe Punch brotherhood :$btable talk and print culture in Mid-Victorian London /$cPatrick Leary.
246 30 $aTable talk and print culture in Mid-Victorian London
260 $aLondon :$bThe British Library Board,$c2010.
300 $ax, 197 p. :$bill., ports. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. Mister Punch and the historians ; Oral culture, print culture ; Community and production -- The brotherhood of the Punch table. The evolution of the dinner meeting ; The early staff at table, 1843-1857 ; Henry Silver and his diary, 1858-1870 -- Cartoons and conversations : the large cut. Many voices ; Imagining the reader ; Following the news ; Give and take -- Gossip and the literary life. Literary success and literary talk ; Swinburne : scandal and judgment ; The Bohemians -- Town talk : Dickens, Thackeray, and the policing of gossip. The great rivalry ; Dickens and gossip : amazing slanders ; The "personal statement" and its consequences ; The Garrick affair : printing comments upon my private conversation ; The committee ; The Garrick is in convulsions ; Wheels within wheels -- Shirley Brooks and the flight from Bohemia. A scrambling, uncertain life : the struggle for respectability ; The Tory journalist and the "grown up" Punch ; I mount a good many guns : the exercise of influence ; The important purpose of my life : the fragility of success -- Bradbury and Evans and the personal politics of print culture. Bradbury and Evans before Punch : master printers ; Punch before Bradbury and Evans : We must have Cash! ; Punch after Bradbury and Evans : the capitalization of sociability ; Talk, fellowship, and production ; Sales, profit, and friendship ; From printer-proprietors to publishers ; Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix. The Henry Silver "diary."
630 00 $aPunch (London, England)
650 0 $aEnglish wit and humor.
650 0 $aEnglish periodicals$zEngland$xHistory.
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906 $0OCLC