{"product_id":"the-rise-of-literary-journalism-in-the-eighteenth-century-anxious-employment-3-routledge-studies-in-eighteenthcentury-literature-9780415343923","title":"The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface And Acknowledgements Notes On The Text Introduction: The Rise of The Periodical 1. ‘Censor-General of \u003ci\u003eGreat Britain\u003c\/i\u003e’: \u003ci\u003eThe Tatler\u003c\/i\u003e and the Editor as Social Monitor 2. ‘The Conversation of my Drawing-Room’: The Female Editor and the Public Sphere in the \u003ci\u003eFemale Tatler\u003c\/i\u003e 3. ‘In Clubs and Assemblies, At Tea-Tables, and in Coffee-Houses’: The \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e and the Shift From the Editorial Club to the Club of Correspondents 4. ‘Faction And Nonsense’: The Rivalry Between \u003ci\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNonsense of Common Sense\u003c\/i\u003e 5 Inventor or Plagiarist? Edward Cave and the First Magazine 6. Polite, Genteel, Elegant: The \u003ci\u003eFemale Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e and the Editor’s Pretensions to Gentility 7 ‘Writing Like a Teacher’: Johnson as Moralist in the \u003ci\u003eRambler\u003c\/i\u003e 8 ‘A Becoming Sensibility’: The \u003ci\u003eOld Maid\u003c\/i\u003e and the Sentimental Periodical 9. ‘Studies Proper For Women’: The \u003ci\u003eLady’s Museum\u003c\/i\u003e and the Periodical as an Educational Tool 10\/ ‘Buried Among the Essays Upon Liberty, Eastern Tales, and Cures for the Bite of a Mad Dog’: Oliver Goldsmith and the Essayist in The Age of Magazines Notes Bibliography Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577320280407,"sku":"9780415343923","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415343923.jpg?v=1746094889","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-rise-of-literary-journalism-in-the-eighteenth-century-anxious-employment-3-routledge-studies-in-eighteenthcentury-literature-9780415343923","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}