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

• Autore: Italia Iona <1969->
• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 828.50809
• Soggetto topico: English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Journalism - Great Britain - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The rise of literary journalism in the eighteenth century
• ISBN: 1-134-28837-9; 1-280-15078-5; 0-203-02353-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808388903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; ; 3.