Eighteenth-century periodicals as agents of change perspectives on northern enlightenment

"Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era's growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces...

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Weitere Verfasser: Krefting, Ellen M. (HerausgeberIn), Nding, Aina (HerausgeberIn), Ringvej, Mona Renate 1970- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Brill [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Library of the written word volume 42
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Ellen Krefting, Aina Noding and Mona Ringvej
  • PART 1. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS. Northern varieties : contrasting the Dano-Norwegian and the Swedish-Finnish enlightenments / Jonathan Israel
  • For the laity, as well as for the learned : some themes and structures in the system of early modern learned periodicals / Ingemar Oscarsson
  • The editor as scout : the rapid mediation of international texts in provincial journals / Aina Noding
  • Struensee in Britain : the interpretation of the Struensee Affair in British periodicals, 1772 / Merethe Roos
  • Transferring propaganda : Gustavian politics in two Go?ttingen journals / Mathias Persson
  • PART 2. POLITICAL TRANSFERS. Big theories and humble realities : censorship and public opinion in the eighteenth century / Edoardo Tortarolo
  • To rule is to communicate : the absolutist system of political communication in Denmark-Norway 1660-1750 / Jakob Maliks
  • The urge to write : Spectator journalists negotiating freedom of the press in Denmark-Norway / Ellen Krefting
  • Developing a new political text culture in Denmark-Norway 1770-1799 / Kjell Lars Berge
  • How to criticize governmental policy without freedom of the press in late eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway / Hilde Sandvik
  • Legislators, journals, and the public legal sphere in Scandinavia around 1800 / Dag Michalsen
  • PART 3. THEATRICAL TRANSFERS. Theatre, patriotism, and politics in Denmark-Norway, 1772-1814 / Anette Storli Andersen
  • The politics of passion : absolutism, opera, and critique in Gustavian Sweden / Erling Sandmo
  • Bowing deeply without tipping over : the theatrical panegyrics of absolutism / Mona Ringvej
  • Paradigms of criticism in the eighteenth century : some considerations concerning publicity and secrecy / Eivind Tjonneland