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.Downie, J. A. is the author of 'Telling People What to Think Early Eighteenth-Century Periodicals from the Review to the Rambler', published 1993 under ISBN 9780714645087 and ISBN 0714645087.