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Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: Conviction and Career de Annemarie McAllister

Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: Conviction and Career: The Nineteenth Century Series

Autor Annemarie McAllister
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2024
This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It introduces some of the now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained. Locating their writing in the context of their personal commitment, the study takes seven prolific writers who were outside what we now think of as the circuits of conventional publication and authorship, and looks at how they found ways to make their voices heard. Their absorption in a cause led them to forge impressive writing careers in a variety of genres and media, focusing around high-circulation temperance periodicals. Examining their cultural contributions as well as their professional lives confirms the importance of the temperance movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, and raises questions about distribution practices and values, and distinctions between "life" and "work."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032372495
ISBN-10: 1032372494
Pagini: 180
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria The Nineteenth Century Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Conviction and Career
2. Clara Lucas Balfour: writing and lecturing as symbiotic vocation
3. William Hoyle: editor, poet, and songsmith
4. Mary Anna Paull: the flowering of a temperance novelist
5. Frank Adkins: special agent with a drive to write
6. Alfred J. Glasspool: juggling the Guildhall and the lecture hall
7. Walter N. Edwards: a life in scientific temperance
8. Mary Magdalen Forrester: from the dye tub to the editor’s chair
9. Conclusion
Index

Notă biografică

Dr. Annemarie McAllister is Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Central Lancashire and has a background in literature and cultural history, with a special interest in periodicals and print culture. She has written widely on the cultural, social, and political history of the UK temperance movement, and edited a volume of The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs on "Temperance Past and Present" in 2019.

Recenzii

"Annemarie McAllister’s Writing for Social Change brings to life the dynamic counter-culture of the nineteenth-century temperance movement in Britain and broadens our received ideas about social reform literature. Temperance activists worked in a wide array of genres – from didactic tales to sensation fiction, from exhortative poetry to music hall ditties, from "thing" stories to magic lantern shows – which McAllister elucidates in a series of sensitive readings. This meticulously researched volume provides an atlas to unknown world; students of working-class literature, popular culture, and periodical studies will find it indispensable."
– Gregory Vargo, Associate Professor, New York University, USA
…’ McAllister clearly lays out her aims for the book in the opening chapter. She indicates that her study will challenge preconceived ideas about the temperance movement, particularly demonstrating that it was lively, nuanced, politically important, and a mainstream part of society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She suggests that it will argue for a more nuanced understanding of professional identity, considering the role of moral conviction alongside financial imperative. She makes clear the centrality of the temperance movement to the intersections between writing and other aspects of their service. Finally, McAllister outlines how she will trace the reworkings and republishing of temperance writings across titles and formats, demonstrating the place of this movement in the wider publishing environment. I believe she goes even beyond achieving all of these aims and lays incredibly solid groundwork on which future scholars can build.’…
--Gaskell, Beth. Victorian Popular Fictions, 6.1 (Spring): 133-5. ISSN: 2632-4253
‘Annemarie McAllister makes the case for periodical research as a guide to temperance imagination and action, using the writing of four male and three female authors to develop a varied chronology of temperance activism in the United Kingdom between1830 and 1930. McAllister makes the vital point that temperance was dominant among reform campaigns, allowing members to hone their skills, develop activist networks, and influence other causes. Sobriety and self improvement were a way to move on and up in life.’ … 
-_David Beckingham, University of Nottingham. The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs Volume 38, Number 1 
‘McAllister successfully demythologises the temperance movement and its champions via an exploration of "untold or marginalised histories" in this eye-opening "re-evaluation of their place in the history of print culture, and Victorian culture more generally" (164). The revealing intersection between performance, public entertainment, and political activism is a particularly compelling and original component of the argument. The book also makes an important contribution to understandings of the nineteenth-century journalist, appealing to readers interested in periodical studies, Victorian studies, and working-class history. The depth of research suggests that this is only scratching the surface: there are many more questions to ask about these writers and the "demands of editorship," more pseudonyms to decipher, and many other figures beyond the scope of this study (158). McAllister's work will certainly act as an important springboard for future research, inviting deeper consideration of the periodical networks influenced by the temperance movement and the forgotten figures devoted to the drive towards social change.’
--Emma Liggins. Victorian Periodicals Review 56, no. 3 (2023): 513 516

Descriere

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century. Introducing now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained.