Early English periodicals and early modern social media / Margaret J. M. Ezell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ezell, Margaret J. M., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections 2632-5578.

Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections, 2632-5578

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English periodicals--History--17th century.

English periodicals.

English periodicals--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Using the lens of early modern social authorship and contemporary social media, this Element explores a new print genre popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the periodical. Traditionally, literary history has focused on only one aspect, the periodical essay. This Element returns the periodical to its original, complex literary ecosystem as an ephemeral text competing for an emerging audience, growing out of a social authorship culture. It argues that the relationship between authors, publishers, and audiences in the early periodicals is a dynamic participatory culture, similar to what modern readers encounter in the early phases of the transition from print to digital, as seen in social media. Like our current evolving digital environment, the periodical also experienced a shift from its original practices stressing sociability to a more commercially driven media ecology. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media

Contents

1 Introduction: Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media Forms

1.1 General Characteristics of Early English Periodicals

1.2 English Periodicals in Literary History

1.3 Creating an Audience: Topicality, Fake News, and Newsbooks

2 Sociable Periodicals, 1690s-1700s: The Royal Society of London's Philosophical Transactions, John Dunton's the Athenian Mercury, and Peter Motteux's, the Gentleman's Journal

2.1 Publishing Serial Periodicals and Topical News

2.2 The Royal Society and the Philosophical Transactions

2.3 John Dunton, the Athenian Mercury, and the Ladies Mercury

2.4 Peter Motteaux and the Gentleman's Journal

3 Sociable Periodicals, 1700s-1720s, Continuity and Change: Aaron Hill's the British Apollo, the Female Tatler, and Daniel Defoe's the Review

3.1 Aaron Hill and the British Apollo, Mrs. Crackenthorpe and the Female Tatler, and the Battle over Readers

3.2 Daniel Defoe and the Review: Capturing the Unsuspecting Reader with the Scandalous Club and the Little Review

4 Celebrity and the Changing Nature of Periodical Cultures: The Tatler, the Spectator, and their Rivals

4.1 Spinoffs, Rivals, and Duds

5 Epilogue: From Sociable Clubs to the Voice of Authority, 1740-1750s: Eliza Haywood's the Female Spectator and Samuel Johnson's the Rambler

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 May 2024).

ISBN:

9781108857680

110885768X

9781108856645

1108856640

9781108866590

110886659X

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access