The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century: Anxious Employment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415343923)

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.

Author: Iona Italia
ISBN-10: 0415343925
ISBN-13: 9780415343923
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2005
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.36w x 0.83d