Author : Iona Italia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134288366
The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century by Iona Italia Pdf
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.