Periodicals [ Print culture ]
… the Tories and the Whigs, who disputed power in Parliament but also by mobilizing public opinion through the press. Daniel Defoe , a great pamphleteer in addition to being a famous novelist, was one of the first to authorize polemical discourse … men of letters, such as Bolingbroke or Jonathan Swift, collaborate d to the periodical by sending texts and works. The Defoe periodical was first printed on a quarto sheet, once a week and sold a penny. Soon, as the periodicity and number …
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