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Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… are no longer seen restrictively as retailing and publishing venues where books were made and sold. Whether it be in the City or in the polite West End, they fulfilled a wide range of functions (mail, banking, politics). Their crucial … suit of clothes, they could not help calling him Peter Pamphlet; for the generous patron of Scotch authors, with his city wife and her niece, were sufficiently ridiculous when they came into good company. 1 Admittedly, eighteenth-century … agents in the strengthening of a public sphere in Britain, but their social status and their retailing activities in the City prevented them from being admitted in ‘good company’. Their shops, scattered between the City and the polite West …
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Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… parliament’s public deliberations as nothing but a part of the public deliberations of the public in general. Only publicity inside and outside the parliament could secure the continuity of critical political debate and its function, to … the public sphere contributed to the appearance of new forms of sociability, in an era marked by the journalistic publicity of private life. 15 13 . Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: the Body and the City in Western Civilization (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996), p. 347. 14 . Roger Silverstone, Why Study the …
Books | Censorship | Newspapers | Periodicals | Public sphere
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