Political Journalism in London, 1695-1720: Defoe, Swift, Steele and Their Contemporaries

by Ashley Marshall

A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.

The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) saw a remarkable boom in political journalism and newspaper culture in London, in which some of the leading literary lights of the age, Swift, Defoe, Addison, Steele, were heavily involved. While scholars have dealt at length with the physical development and circulation of these newspapers and with their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837651299
• ISBN13: 9781837651290
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"