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Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse
Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 6] 2017
► pp. 157–173

Chapter 9
Diffusing political knowledge in illustrated magazines

A comparison between the Portuguese O Panorama and the British The Penny Magazine in 1837–1844

It is our purpose to compare two illustrated periodicals (a Portuguese and a British one) during the 1837–1844 period as to the way political issues are addressed and conveyed, as well as to ascertain the underlying cultural and social reasons in the two countries that can explain the approximations and divergences detected. The Portuguese O Panorama (1837–1868) diffused cultural matters in general. It was created by the Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Úteis under the patronage of Alexandre Herculano, a famous man of letters, journalist and writer. The first three series of O Panorama are a direct imitation of the British The Penny Magazine (1832–1845), created by Charles Knight, under the auspices of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Keywords: Illustrated periodicals, multimodality, discourse analysis, O Panorama , The Penny Magazine
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Illustrated press in the mid-nineteenth century: The general context and the cases of Portugal and England
  • 3.O Panorama and The Penny Magazine: Similarities and differences in the approaches adopted as to political matters
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Internet references
Published online: 29 August 2017
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