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Book SynopsisPeriodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era’s growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces of information from country to country, from centre to periphery, and from press to subscribers. These journals became agents of change by mediating the increasingly profound and widespread urge to write and read and to engage in political debate. This volume, edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej, presents contributions that explore this media revolution from a Northern perspective. The chapters throw new light on the reception of Enlightenment ideas and practices in Denmark–Norway, Sweden–Finland, and beyond. Taken together, they make a strong case for the transnational and revolutionary character of the Enlightenment as a whole.
Trade Review“brilliant essays […]. This excellent collection should be read by anyone interested in Enlightenment thought and society”. Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1045-1047.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations and Figures List of Contributors Introduction Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej Section I: International transfers Chapter 1 “Northern varieties: Contrasting the Dano-Norwegian and the Swedish-Finnish Enlightenments” Jonathan Israel Chapter 2 “For the laity, as well as for the learned: Some themes and structures in the system of early modern learned periodicals” Ingemar Oscarsson Chapter 3 “The editor as scout: The rapid mediation of international texts in provincial journals” Aina Nøding Chapter 4 “Struensee in Britain: The Interpretation of the Struensee Affair in British periodicals, 1772” Merethe Roos Chapter 5 “Transferring propaganda: Gustavian politics in two Göttingen journals” Mathias Persson Section II: Political transfers Chapter 6 “Big theories and humble realities: Censorship and public opinion in the eighteenth century” Edoardo Tortarolo Chapter 7 “To rule is to communicate: The absolutist system of political communication in Denmark-Norway 1660-1750” Jakob Maliks Chapter 8 “The urge to write: Spectator journalists negotiating freedom of the press in Denmark–Norway” Ellen Krefting Chapter 9 “Developing a new political text culture in Denmark-Norway 1770–1799” Kjell Lars Berge Chapter 10 “How to criticize governmental policy without freedom of the press in late eighteenth-century Denmark–Norway” Hilde Sandvik Chapter 11 “Legislators, journals, and the public legal sphere in Scandinavia around 1800” Dag Michalsen Section III: Theatrical transfers Chapter 12 "Theatre, patriotism, and politics in Denmark–Norway, 1772‒1814” Anette Storli Andersen Chapter 13 “The politics of passion: Absolutism, opera, and critique in Gustavian Sweden” Erling Sandmo Chapter 14 “Bowing deeply without tipping over: The theatrical panegyrics of absolutism” Mona Ringvej Chapter 15 “Paradigms of criticism in the eighteenth century: Some considerations concerning publicity and secrecy” Eivind Tjønneland Section V: Digital transfers Chapter 16 “Research-driven collaborative metadata collection: Indexing and digitizing Norwegian periodicals, 1700–1820” Hege Stensrud Høsøien Chapter 17 “Indexing the Enlightenment: Remarks on digital and international transfers in eighteenth-century periodicals” Flemming Schock Bibliography Index
