Potterism (Handheld Classics Ser.) (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- Rose Macaulay’s 1920 satire on British journalism and the newspaper industry will be back in print in the UK for the first time in seventy years. It will be published alongside a new collection of her pacifist writing from 1916 to 1945, Non-Combatants and Others: Writings Against War (ISBN 9781912766307). Potterism is about the Potter newspaper empire, fake news and anti-Semitism during the First World War and into the 1920s. When Jane and Johnny Potter are at Oxford they learn to despise their father’s popular newspapers, though they still end up working for the family business. But Jane is greedy, and wants more than society will let her have. Mrs Potter is a well-known romantic novelist, whose cheap novelettes appear in the shop-girls’ magazines. She has become unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and her success gives her an unhealthy estimation of her own influence. Arthur Gideon resists the fake news and gushing sentiment peddled by the Potter press, but an unexpected tragedy binds him even closer to their influence. The Introduction is by Sarah Lonsdale, senior lecturer in journalism at City University London, and the author of the Introduction to Handheld Press’s best-selling edition of Rose Macaulay’s What Not
- Copyright:
- 1920
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 274 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781912766338
- Publisher:
- Handheld Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/10/20
- Copyrighted By:
- The Estate of Rose Macaulay
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Humor, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Kate Macdonald
- Proofread By:
- Kate Macdonald
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.