Abstract

EUP Book Proposal Title Publishing News in English Abroad (1800-1914) Sub-title A History of Newspapers and Periodicals in English in Non-Anglophone Countries Editors Professor Diana Cooper-Richet, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Professor Isabelle Richet, Université de Paris Headline Studies the spread of the British journalistic model and culture through newspapers and periodical media in English outside the English-speaking World. Pitch Little do we know about the numerous newspapers, reviews, and magazines of all genres published in English outside the English-Speaking world between 1800 and WWI. Close to three hundred were issued in France, sixty in Italy, hundreds in Latin America, others in the Ottoman Empire, Asia and many other places across the world. They were launched by English or local businesspeople, expatriate intellectuals or London foreign correspondents. They covered many topics – politics, commerce, religion, arts, literature, fashion sports, economics, - and targeted English-speaking visitors, residents, trade people, entrepreneurs, cosmopolitan travellers, politicians, students, women and men artists and writers. Their existence testifies to the acceleration of transnational exchanges and the increasing diversity of media culture. They partook of the dissemination of the print media and the global circulation of English editorial models and of British journalistic culture. But what were the precise processes that made their emergence possible? To what extent did they contribute to re-enforcing or re-inventing the identities or British communities abroad? What kind of transnational space(s) did they create? How did they encourage transcultural exchanges and relations? These are some of the questions this volume will address in order to give these newspapers and periodicals the place they deserve in the history of the British press. Key Features: - Based on new research and never-studied collections, this volume focuses on a worldwide phenomenon completely neglected by historians of the press. - Heeds the numerous calls from periodical studies scholars for a widening of the scope of Nineteenth Century periodicals and press studies, notably in ”extra- territorial and multilingual contexts” (Paul Fyfe). - A special focus on journalists and editors and in particular on the role played by women.. - Interdisciplinary approach bringing together cultural historians, historians of the press, media study and literature specialists.