Joseph Dennie and The Farmer's Weekly Museum
Readership and Pseudonymous Celebrity in Early National Journalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16769142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Paul Lafferty (Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-87 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Nineteenth Century History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4658 • E-ISSN: 1743-7903 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14664658.2014.892302 |
| OpenAlex | W1974761676 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The early national period witnessed an explosion in newspaper journalism in terms of both the quantity of publications produced and their geographic reach. This essay examines these issues through the case of an editor, Joseph Dennie, who worked in New Hampshire in the late 1790s. Dennie is an early (although not an original) example of the dedicated, white-collar editor, and his Weekly Museum and Lay Preacher articles achieved widespread notice. Dennie did not, during his New Hampshire career at least, become a household name, by virtue of publishing exclusively under pseudonyms. The essay looks at the opportunities that this presented and what it allowed him to get away with
Aesthetics · Art · Audience measurement · Journalism · Media studies · Newspaper · Notice · Period (music · Political science · Publishing · Sociology · Virtue · White (mutation · American History and Culture · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philippine History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |