The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century : Anxious Employment.

By: Italia, IonaMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature SerPublisher: Florence : Routledge, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (261 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203023532Subject(s): English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century | Journalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century : Anxious EmploymentDDC classification: 828/.50809 LOC classification: PR769 -- .I83 2005ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Summary: 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.
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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.

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