1st Edition

Telling People What to Think Early Eighteenth Century Periodicals from the Review to the Rambler

Edited By Thomas Corns, J.A. Downie Copyright 1993
    140 Pages
    by Routledge

    140 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of essays displays a number of different approaches to the most significant early eighteenth-century periodicals. The range is considerable: the critique of ideology and polemical strategy, the political history of the press, the rhetoric of the genre, and the material circumstances of periodical production all find a place. The periodical profoundly shaped the English reading public's ways of perceiving the social and political institutions of their own age.

    REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES -"As it stands, the book reflects solid empirical research on a number of individual titles in a buoyant period in the history of the periodical press...

    Biography

    Thomas Corns (University of Wales, Bangor) (Edited by) , J A Downie (Edited by)