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Author Leary, Patrick, author

Title The Punch brotherhood : table talk and print culture in Mid-Victorian London / Patrick Leary
Published London : The British Library, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Table of Contents; List of Figures; AcknowledgemENTS; Introduction; The Brotherhood of the Punch Table; Cartoons and Conversations: The Large Cut; Gossip and the Literary Life; Town Talk: Dickens, Thackeray, and the Policing of Gossip; Shirley Brooks and the flight from Bohemia; Bradbury and Evans and the Personal Politics of Print Culture; Epilogue; Appendix: The Henry Silver Diary; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary "The Punch Brotherhood takes the reader inside this Victorian institution, bringing to life the tightly-knit community of writers, artists, and proprietors who gathered around the Punch Table, and the tumultuous, uninhibited conversations, spiced with jokes and gossip."--Book flap
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2015)
SUBJECT Punch (London, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005020518
Punch (London, England) fast
Punch Zeitschrift, London gnd
Punch -- (Zeitschrift. idszbz
Subject English wit and humor -- Great Britain
Periodicals -- Publishing -- Great Britain
Journalism -- Great Britain
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
English wit and humor
Journalism
Periodicals -- Publishing
Geistesleben
Gesellschaft
Konversation
Tidskrifter -- historia.
Publicistik -- historia.
Skämttidningar -- historia.
Engelsk humor -- historia.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
England -- London.
Genre/Form periodicals.
History
Periodicals
Periodicals.
Périodiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780712363662
0712363661