Famous Reviews - Couverture rigide

Johnson, R. Brimley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0836905776 ISBN 13 : 9780836905779

Editeur : Books for Libraries, 1967

Synopsis

Book by Johnson R Brimley

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Although regular literary organs, and the critical columns of the press, are both of comparatively recent origin, we find that ahnost from the beginning our journalists aspired to be critics as well as newsmongers. Under Charles II, Sir Roger LE strange issued his Observator (1681), which weis a weekly review, not a chronicle; and John Dunton s The Athenian Mercury (1690), is best described as a sort of early Notes and Queries. Here, as elsewhere, Defoe developed this branch of journalism, particularly in his Review (1704), and in Mist s Journal (1714). A nd, again, as in a Uother departments, Ms methods were not materially improved upon until Leigh Himt, and his brother John, started The Examiner in 1808, soon after the rise of the Reviews. Addison and Steele, of course, had treated literary topics in The Spectator or The Toiler ;but the serious discussion of contemporary writers began with the Whig Edinburgh of 1802 and the Tory Quarterly of 1809. By the end of George Ill sreign every daily paper had its column of book-notices; while 1817 marks an epoch in the weekly press; when Wi Uiam Jerdan started The Observator (parent of our A thenaeum) in order to furnish (for one shilling weekly) a clear and instructive picture of the moral and literary improvement of the time, and a complete and authentic chronological literary record for reference. Though probably there is no form of literature more widely practised, and less organised, than the review, it would be safe to say that every example stands somewhere between a critical essay and a publishers advertisement. We need not, however, consider here the many influences which may corrupt newspaper criticism to-day, nor concern ourselves with those legitimate notices of books which only aim at te Uing the story or otherwise offering guidance for an order from the library.
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About the Publisher

Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1914. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Books for Libraries
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0836905776
• ISBN 13: 9780836905779
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible