The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Iona Italia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-02-22
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1134288360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.