“Of the making of magazines there is no end”: W.T. Stead, Newness, and the Archival Imagination

[...]he naturalized sensation, remarking that life, thought, and existence "are built up by a never-ending series of sensations" and that "when people object to sensations they object to the very material of life" ("Government" 670). [...]arises the tendency which offen...

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Published in:	English studies in Canada 2015-03, Vol.41 (1), p.69-91
Main Author:	Mussell, James
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1849-1912 19th century Analysis Beliefs, opinions and attitudes Great Britain History Journalism Journalists Media Organization formation Periodical publishing Review of reviews (London, England) Serial publications Stead, W D Stead, W. T Stead, William Thomas William Thomas
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Summary:	[...]he naturalized sensation, remarking that life, thought, and existence "are built up by a never-ending series of sensations" and that "when people object to sensations they object to the very material of life" ("Government" 670). [...]arises the tendency which offends so many English readers of exaggerated heading or scare-heads, as they are called in the slang of the profession. First of all, their contents are necessarily selected, the recalled past dependent on what was saved, the material properties of the archive's contents, and its systems of storage and recall. [...]Derrida aligns the archive with the death drive. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013). Since 2009 he has edited the Digital Forum in the Journal of Victorian Culture.
ISSN:	0317-0802 1913-4835 1913-4835