Dr Tessa Hauswedell

Research summary


This project is concerned with examining how the dramatic expansion of newspapers over the 19th century created a global culture of abundant, rapidly circulating information. The significance of the newspaper has largely been defined in metropolitan and national terms in scholarship, while digitization by local institutions further situates newspapers in national contexts. The project brings together leading efforts in computational periodicals research from six countries—Finland, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States—to examine patterns of information flow across national and linguistic boundaries.

My interest within this project lies with examining how the theme of emigration and immigration were discussed in British and American newspapers.  The history of European migration to North America and Canada throughout the nineteenth century is one of the best-researched instances of mass migration waves in the modern world. Newspapers were important in facilitating emigration, as they provided useful information for potential emigrants about the journey and destination country through advertisements of the numerous associated businesses involved in the trade of emigration: shipping companies, emigration agents and so on. These newspapers also extensively discussed the merits and drawbacks of mass emigration and this project aims to uncover dominant and recurring themes in the British and American corpora of the late nineteenth century.

 

Teaching summary

ELCS 0018 Language and Ideology

 

ELCS 0041 Topics in Linguistics

DUTC0008 Multiculturalism and Identity

CMII0034 Questions of European Integration

CMII0078 Comparative Literary Studies

Education

University College London

, | 2019

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