Waters, Catherine (2009) ‘Much of Sala, and but Little of Russia''A Journey Due North,' Household Words, and the Birth of a Special Correspondent. Victorian Periodicals Review, 42 (4). pp. 305-323. ISSN 0709-4698. (doi:10.1353/vpr.0.0090) (KAR id:40672)
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Abstract
When Dickens sent George Augustus Sala as a special correspondent to Russia just after the end of the Crimean War, he launched him in what was to become his best-known role as a journalist. Comprising twenty-two articles which appeared in weekly instalments from 4 October 1856 to 14 March 1857, Sala's essays are of interest not only for their representation of one of the significant geographical and cultural "others" of the mid-Victorian imagination, but for their distinctive style, which is vibrant and polyglot, eschewing political analysis and statistical information in favour of the flâneur's "gastronomy of the eye" – the vivid metropolitan travel writing so popular with mid-nineteenth-century readers.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1353/vpr.0.0090 |
Projects: | Journalism on the move: the special correspondent and Victorian print culture |
Subjects: |
P Language and Literature P Language and Literature > PE English philology and language |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English |
Depositing User: | Catherine Waters |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2014 00:05 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:15 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/40672 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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