… , 204). A few years into their foundation, the Royal Society established the Philosophical Transactions, a scientific periodical overseen by the society’s secretary, which was published monthly and sold for a shilling. Natural history …
… of sociability such as Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in their Tatler (1709-1711) and Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) periodicals. In The Spectator , Addison famously declared: ‘I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have …
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… thereby a spurious group cohesion along with a pleasant day out. Indeed, as Ned Ward described in his satirical periodical The London Spy in 1699, the sociable nature of a visit to Bethlem could include not only cheap entertainment …
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… Simons Collins, Authorship in the Days of Johnson (London: Routledge, 1927), p. 118. 6 . Walter Graham, English Literary Periodicals (New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1930), p. 14. While Griffin does not deny the general tendency of the period …
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… History of Parliament Inline, 1754-90 survey, ‘The Constituencies’. Electioneering also took place in printed tracts and periodicals. From the 1640s onwards a genre of electoral advice literature emerged that became an important part of …
… moral preoccupations were deemed unmanly and characterised by their fraudulent language. The ‘new morality’ derided by periodicals such as The Anti-Jacobin 12 appeared to Tories and opponents to the Revolution as a perversion of true …
… Scottish anniversaries were usually ephemeral or fictitious clubs or societies. Sometimes, their names would appear in periodicals such as The Spectator (McElroy 441-442). The impact of the clubs and societies of Edinburgh on the social, …
… vs. positive effects of ‘luxury’ on individuals, families, trade, and the economy, both in literary texts and in periodicals. Certain clichés recur: since antiquity, opponents of luxury had upheld that luxury made men effeminate, …
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