Telling people what to think : early eighteenth-century periodicals from the Review to the Rambler
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Telling people what to think : early eighteenth-century periodicals from the Review to the Rambler
Frank Cass, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references
"This group of studies first appeared in a special issue of Prose studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (April 1993)."
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Description
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.
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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...
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