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Financialization and the “Crisis of the Media” »
Book: The Political Economies of Media
The rise and fall of (some) media conglomerates in Canada
Dwayne Winseck
Carleton University
Thi...
1830–1855 »
By Gail MarshallBook: Victorian Fiction
Living with the city
During this period, we witness the birth of the Victorian city and of the Victorian novel, and of a relationship betw...
1856–1870 »
By Gail MarshallBook: Victorian Fiction
Questions of identity
During this period, many of the buildings that seem to us now to represent the epitome of Victorian self-confidence ...
1871–1885 »
By Gail MarshallBook: Victorian Fiction
Democracy and its discontents
With the death of Dickens in 1870, a unifying figure was lost to British fiction and culture. That Shakespea...
1886–1901 »
By Gail MarshallBook: Victorian Fiction
‘Fin de siècle? Fin du globe’
The end of the century proved to be an anxious time, one marked by fears of decline and change, which were o...
24-hour News Channels and the ‘New’ Television Journalism »
Book: The Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
As the news credits roll, two sombre-looking newscasters sitting behind their standard-issu...