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The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century: Anxious Employment
By Iona Italia
260 pages
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- Routledge
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- New York
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- 2005
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Synopsis
Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by well-known writers and obscure hacks. The book's central theme is the struggle of eighteenth-century journalists to attain literary respectability and the strategies by which editors sought to improve the literary ...
Recent years have witnessed a heightened interest in eighteenth-century literary journalism and popular culture. This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre and traces the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, covering a range of publications by well-known writers and obscure hacks. The book's central theme is the struggle of eighteenth-century journalists to attain literary respectability and the strategies by which editors sought to improve the literary and social status of their publications.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface and Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on the Text xi
- Introduction 1
- 1 - 'Censor-General of Great Britain' 23
- 2 - 'the Conversation of My Drawing-Room' 49
- 3 - 'In Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses' 66
- 4 - 'Faction and Nonsense' 93
- 5 - Inventor or Plagiarist? Edward Cave and the First Magazine 110
- 6 - Polite, Genteel, Elegant 123
- 7 - 'Writing like a Teacher' 140
- 8 - 'A Becoming Sensibility' 165
- 9 - 'studies Proper for Women' 178
- 10 - 'Buried Among the Essays Upon Liberty, Eastern Tales, and Cures for the Bite of a Mad Dog' 206
- Notes 223
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Preface and Acknowledgements ix
- Notes on the Text xi
- Introduction 1
- 1 - 'Censor-General of Great Britain' 23
- 2 - 'the Conversation of My Drawing-Room' 49
- 3 - 'In Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses' 66
- 4 - 'Faction and Nonsense' 93
- 5 - Inventor or Plagiarist? Edward Cave and the First Magazine 110
- 6 - Polite, Genteel, Elegant 123
- 7 - 'Writing like a Teacher' 140
- 8 - 'A Becoming Sensibility' 165
- 9 - 'studies Proper for Women' 178
- 10 - 'Buried Among the Essays Upon Liberty, Eastern Tales, and Cures for the Bite of a Mad Dog' 206
- Notes 223
- Bibliography 228
- Index 240