Eighteenth-century periodicals as agents of change : : perspectives on northern enlightenment / / edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding, Mona Ringvej.

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 informa...

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Superior document:Library of the written word ; The Handpress world ; v. 42. volume 33
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2015]
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Library of the Written Word 42.
Physical Description:1 online resource (358 pages)
Notes:Papers originally presented at the conference "Periodical transfers: Eighteenth Century Journals as Agents of Change," held at Bogstad Manor outside Oslo in June 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Ellen Krefting , Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej
  • Introduction / Ellen Krefting , Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej
  • Northern Varieties: Contrasting the Dano-Norwegian and the Swedish-Finnish Enlightenments / Jonathan Israel
  • For the Laity, as Well as for the Learned: Some Themes and Structures in the System of Early Modern Learned Periodicals / Ingemar Oscarsson
  • The Editor as Scout: The Rapid Mediation of International Texts in Provincial Journals / Aina Nøding
  • Struensee in Britain: The Interpretation of the Struensee Affair in British Periodicals, 1772 / Merethe Roos
  • Transferring Propaganda: Gustavian Politics in Two Göttingen Journals / Mathias Persson
  • Big Theories and Humble Realities: Censorship and Public Opinion in the Eighteenth Century / Edoardo Tortarolo
  • To Rule is to Communicate: The Absolutist System of Political Communication in Denmark–Norway 1660–1750 / Jakob Maliks
  • The Urge to Write: Spectator Journalists Negotiating Freedom of the Press in Denmark–Norway / Ellen Krefting
  • Developing a New Political Text Culture in Denmark–Norway 1770–1799 / Kjell Lars Berge
  • How to Criticize Governmental Policy without Freedom of the Press in Late Eighteenth-Century Denmark–Norway / Hilde Sandvik
  • Legislators, Journals, and the Public Legal Sphere in Scandinavia Around 1800 / Dag Michalsen
  • Theatre, Patriotism, and Politics in Denmark–Norway, 1772-1814 / Anette Storli Andersen
  • The Politics of Passion: Absolutism, Opera, and Critique in Gustavian Sweden / Erling Sandmo
  • Bowing Deeply without Tipping Over: The Theatrical Panegyrics of Absolutism / Mona Ringvej
  • Paradigms of Criticism in the Eighteenth Century: Some Considerations Concerning Publicity and Secrecy / Eivind Tjønneland
  • Research-Driven Collaborative Metadata Collection: Indexing and Digitizing Norwegian Periodicals, 1700–1820 / Hege Stensrud Høsøien
  • Indexing the Enlightenment: Remarks on Digital and International Transfers in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals / Flemming Schock
  • Bibliography / Ellen Krefting , Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej
  • Index / Ellen Krefting , Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej.