Telling People What to Think : Early Eighteenth Century Periodicals From the Review to the Rambler

This collection of essays displays a number of different approaches to the most significant early eighteenth-century periodicals. The range is considerable: the critique of ideology and polemical strategy, the political history of the press, the rhetoric of the genre, and the material circumstances of periodical production all find a place. The periodical profoundly shaped the English reading public's ways of perceiving the social and political institutions of their own age. Edited By J.a. Downie And Thomas N. Corns. This Group Of Studies First Appeared In A Special Issue Of Prose Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3 (december 1992).