Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]
… popular literary product, greatly appreciated by readers in search of political satire and intellectual derision. Joseph Addison, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Richard Steele gained a central role in the process of journalistic … Barker, Newspapers, Politics, and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2017). Addison and Steele owed their notoriety to the creation of The Spectator , whose innovative framework found a sensible … between political and social criticism. The Spectator project contributed to the shaping of a new model of sociability . Addison adapted the essay within the leading article and developed Defoe’s insight in merging novels with essays, thus …
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