Description:
Impolite Periodicals brings together a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century periodical publication, not simply to argue that periodicals, such as Addison and Steele's popular The Spectator, could be impolite, but to explore how readings of their potential impoliteness might affect our understanding of their literary and social significance.
Review Quotes:
"This excellent book productively agitates traditional thinking about periodicals in the first half of the eighteenth century. Alive to the multiple cultural, commercial, and political stakes of politeness and impoliteness, it allows us to take eighteenth-century periodicals on their own terms, in all their vitality and messiness."
--Jennie Batchelor "author of The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History"