附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 'Censor-General of Great Britain'; 2 'The Conversation of my Drawing-Room'; 3 'In Clubs and Assemblies; 4 'Faction and Nonsense': the rivalry between Common; 5 Inventor or Plagiarist?; 6 Polite, genteel, elegant; 7 'Writing like a teacher'; 8 'A becoming sensibility'; 9 'Studies proper for women'; 10 'Buried among the essays upon liberty, eastern tales, and cures for the bite of a mad dog'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
摘要:This book provides an account of the early periodical as a literary genre. Tracing the development of journalism from the 1690s to the 1760s, it covers a range of publications by well-known writers and obscure hacks.