Reading newspapers : press and public in eighteenth-century Britain and America / Uriel Heyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heyd, Uriel (Historian)

Series:

SVEC ; 2012:03.

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century ; 2012:03

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newspaper reading.

American newspapers--History--18th century.

American newspapers.

English newspapers--History--18th century.

English newspapers.

Reading interests--United States--History--18th century.

Reading interests.

Reading interests--Great Britain--History--18th century.

History.

Great Britain.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2012.

Summary:

Heyd (department of history, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ) contributes to the series formerly known as Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century but now just SVEC, with a study of one of the most influential media in the 18th-century intellectual milieu in the Atlantic world. He looks at the role of the press, consuming the newspaper, indexes compiled by printers and readers, the newspaper world on stage, the obsessive reader, and the reader as collector. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780729410427

0729410420

OCLC:

778326813