Defoe''s Review 1704-13, Volume 5 (1708-9), Part II

Discusses one of Daniel Defoe's greatest, but least known works, his periodical the "Review of the State of the British Nation". Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion.

Summary

Discusses one of Daniel Defoe's greatest, but least known works, his periodical the "Review of the State of the British Nation". Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion.

Product details

• Authors: MCVEAGH, McVeagh John, John Mcveagh
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.10.2007
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781138285132
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28513-2
• Pages: 434
• Series: Defoe's Review 1704-13; Defoe's Review 1704–13; Defoe's Review 1704–13
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, public opinion formation, eighteenth-century journalism, British political commentary, origins of English press analysis, periodical literature history, early modern media studies, print culture scholarship