Give Your Thoughts Life: William Colenso's Letters to the Editor - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1877578142 ISBN 13: 9781877578144

Casa editrice: Otago Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

"...you have the Press, both open and free: use it. Give your thoughts life; let all good measures be brought forward, discussed, and well ventilated." - William Colenso, writing to the Hawkes Bay Herald correspondence columns in 1859 *** William Colenso (1811-1899) was a Cornish Christian missionary to New Zealand. He was also a printer, a botanist, an explorer, and a politician. Colenso had an educated opinion on everything, and he expressed his opinions in letters to the editors of several New Zealand newspapers. The provincial newspaper columns were the 'public spheres' of their time - places for geographically separated individuals to contribute opinions to the debates of an immature democracy. But, equally, they were the vehicles for the passionately held views of bigots egged on by unscrupulous editors eager for exciting copy. Many of Colenso's public letters were answers to - or were met by - equally forthright editorials or published letters from contemporaries. Colonial politics were argumentative, fervent, destructive, and nasty - and the rants of opinionated, self-styled experts were thrilling in their vehemence. 'Give Your Thoughts Life' contains a fascinating and entertaining collection of William Colenso's newspaper letters.

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L'autore:

Ian St George is a retired general practitioner. He came to Colenso studies through his interest in native orchids. He has edited a collection of Colenso’s letters to the editor entitledGive your Thoughts Life and Colenso’s Collections. He is editor of eColenso, the newsletter of the Colenso Society.

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' ...you have the Press, both open and free: use it. Give your thoughts life; let all good measures be brought forward, discussed, and well ventilated.' William Colenso, writing to the Hawkes Bay Herald correspondence columns in 1859 In his more than 200 letters to editors, Colenso wrote mostly for local Hawke's Bay readers. But he was a national celebrity for his opinions, as the clippings from papers outside the Bay scattered through this collection and his widely published obituary notices demonstrate. One correspondent to the Wanganui Herald in January 1882, similarly sympathetic to the plight of Maori, tellingly signed himself, 'COLENSO'S GHOST.' The letters reproduced in this book are all that can be found at present. As well, some other newspaper items have been included if they threw light on the more obscure letters. The editor has been selective - for a time there was scarcely an issue in which Colenso was not mentioned. The provincial newspaper columns were the 'public spheres' of their time, places for geographically separated individuals to contribute opinions to the debates of an immature democracy. But equally they were the vehicles for the passionately held views of bigots egged on by unscrupulous editors eager for exciting copy. Many of Colenso's public letters were answers to (or were met by) equally forthright editorials or published letters from contemporaries. Colonial politics were argumentative, fervent, destructive and nasty - and the rants of opinionated, self-styled experts are thrilling in their vehemence.

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• Editore: Otago Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1877578142
• ISBN 13: 9781877578144
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 497