Reading newspapers
Subtitle: press and public in eighteenth-century Britain and America
By: Uriel Heyd
Series: SVEC -- 2012:03; SVEC -- 2012:03.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780729410427
Subjects: American newspapers; English newspapers; Newspaper reading; Reading interests; History
Description: In the 18th century newspapers reached an all-embracing readership: male and female, noble and artisan, in both town and country. Uriel Heyd examines this vibrant new print medium and investigates its political, social and cultural implications in both Britain and America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Role of the press; title: Consuming the newspaper; title: Sorting the newspaper : printer- and reader compiled indexes; title: The newspaper world on stage; title: Quidnunc : the obsessive reader; title: The reader as collector : shaping time and space.