British Literary Magazines: The Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson, 1698-1788 (Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers) - Hardcover

Marsh, Dolores; Ramm, Phyllis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031322871X ISBN 13: 9780313228711

Publisher: Greenwood, 1983

Synopsis

This is the first volume of a projected four-volume reference guide to British literary magazines. The Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson covers the literature of the period between 1698, when the London Spy began publishing, through 1788. The work contains historical essays, publication details, and bibliographic sources for ninety magazines and lists, in two appendixes, an additional eighty-three magazines of the period.

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Review:

This volume is a useful reference tool. . . . Just browsing through its entries can provide fascinating sidelights on many aspects of eighteenth-century life: standards of literary criticism, attitudes toward women as well as women's attitudes, morality, philosophy and politics, taste in fiction and poetry, inquiring interest in everything from transparent flies to `a tale of turd.' In short, this handbook provides a good introduction to, in Golden's phrase, `those repositories of a whole society's bric-a-brac,' the eighteenth-century literary magazine. - Albion

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 031322871X
• ISBN 13: 9780313228711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 427