Impolite Periodicals – Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century Jones

Impolite PeriodicalsReading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Emrys D. Jones, Adam James Smith, Katarina Stenke, Anthony Pollock, Adam James Smith, Katarina Stenke, Emrys D. Jones, Jennifer Batt, Claire Knowles, Richard Squibbs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781684485772, 978-1684485772\nSynopsis\nStudies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the periods own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steeles popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within the societies that produced and consumed them. By inverting the traditional focus, this volume promotes a new history of the periodical characterized not as highbrow gatekeeper of literar.