A Victorian Authority: The Daily Press in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada

by Paul Rutherford

Book Overview

During the last third of the nineteenth century a fierce rivalry among party 'organs, ' sectarian dailies, upstart 'people's journals, ' and revamped 'quality' papers fashioned a popular journalism for a large, chiefly urban audience in Canada. By the end of the 1890s, the number of daily and weekly editions of these newspapers exceeded the count of Canadian families. The country's first mass medium has arrived.

Professor Rutherford charts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802064590
• ISBN13: 9780802064592
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"