I Hope I Don't Intrude by David Vincent
Taking his title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, a huge success in London, New York, and around the English-speaking world, David Vincent explores the worlds of privacy and celebrity in nineteenth-century Britain, examining debates about mass communication and state surveillance that link to today's concerns.
In its analysis of popular theatre, print culture, and satire this is an impressive volume* Antony Taylor, Neue Politische Literatur *
[A] fascinating double-history of nineteenth-century privacy and popular drama ... Meticulously researched and eloquently written ... Vincent's spirited curiosity and vigorous research into the extraordinarily buoyant, mottled afterlife of Pry signals his own full respect for the subject of his investigations. * Peter W. Sinnema, Victorian Studies *
[A] fascinating double-history of nineteenth-century privacy and popular drama ... Meticulously researched and eloquently written ... Vincent's spirited curiosity and vigorous research into the extraordinarily buoyant, mottled afterlife of Pry signals his own full respect for the subject of his investigations. * Peter W. Sinnema, Victorian Studies *
David Vincent studied at the Universities of York and Cambridge, before joining Keele University as a lecturer in history in 1974. He left as Professor of Social History and Deputy Vice Chancellor in 2003, and became Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Strategy and External Affairs at The Open University, which he carried out from 2003 to 2010, when he became Professor of Social History. He was President of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities from 2004 to 2009, and is a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198725039 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198725035 |
| Title | I Hope I Don't Intrude |
| Author | David Vincent |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2015-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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