Defoe's Review as a Historical Source
| Autor: | William Thomas Morgan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1940 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Modern History. 12:221-232 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5358 0022-2801 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/236459 |
| Popis: | O N SATURDAY, February 19, 1703/4, a new periodical made its appearance in London: "A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France: Purg'd from the Errors and Partiality of News-Writers and PettyStatesmen, of all Sides. Printed for the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1704." This journal had a much longer life than most such publications in early eighteenth-century England. For the first sixteen years of this century some three hundred and forty odd have been recently listed,2 many of which had a very short and checkered career. Despite the hardships endured by its editor, the Review lasted for more than nine years and during most of the period appeared three times a week. It was a stupendous undertaking for one man, especially for one so deeply engrossed in many other projects in no sense of a literary character-one who was both business man and government agent.3 |
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