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Eighteenth-century Periodicals As Agents of Change: Perspectives on Northern Enlightenment

By Ellen Krefting , Aina Nøding , Mona Ringvej (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004290052, 9789004290051
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3128319 bytes)
Series
Library of the Written Word 42; The Handpress World 33
Pages
xii+346\359
Time added
2018-05-06 09:50:49
LScandinavia;Denmark;Norway;Sweden;Europe;History;W

Description

"Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era's growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces of information from country to country, from centre to periphery, and from press to subscribers. These journals became agents of change by mediating the increasingly profound and widespread urge to write and read and to engage in political debate. This volume, edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina N²ding and Mona Ringvej, presents contributions that explore this media revolution from a Northern perspective. The chapters throw new light on the reception of Enlightenment ideas and practices in Denmark-Norway, Sweden-Finland, and beyond. Taken together, they make a strong case for the transnational and revolutionary character of the Enlightenment as a whole"

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