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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451237003321

Autore

Italia Iona <1969, >

Titolo

The rise of literary journalism in the eighteenth century : anxious employment / / Iona Italia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-28837-9

1-280-15078-5

0-203-02353-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; ; 3

Disciplina

828.50809

Soggetti

English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Journalism - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 'Censor-General of Great Britain'; 2 'The Conversation of my Drawing-Room'; 3 'In Clubs and Assemblies; 4 'Faction and Nonsense': the rivalry between Common; 5 Inventor or Plagiarist?; 6 Polite, genteel, elegant; 7 'Writing like a teacher'; 8 'A becoming sensibility'; 9 'Studies proper for women'; 10 'Buried among the essays upon liberty, eastern tales, and cures for the bite of a mad dog'; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 both well-known and obscure writers. 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.