« Everything conducive to the publick good » : Les premières lettres de lecteurs dans la presse britannique au début du XVIIIe siècle
Letters to the editor, whether they come from real or fictional readers, occupy a central place in eighteenth-century periodical literature, be it newspapers, reviews, essays or magazines: they were at the same time a space of public debate and controversy, as well as a manipulative tool with an ide...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/302 |
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| Summary: | Letters to the editor, whether they come from real or fictional readers, occupy a central place in eighteenth-century periodical literature, be it newspapers, reviews, essays or magazines: they were at the same time a space of public debate and controversy, as well as a manipulative tool with an ideological or commercial agenda. This article aims at tracing the birth of this phenomenon, at the beginning of the century, in order to identify the themes, forms, place and function of a device that was essential for the development of the European press. |
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| ISSN: | 1634-0450 |