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Author:

Heyd, Uriel.

Title:

Reading newspapers : press and public in eighteenth-century Britain and America / Uriel Heyd.

Publisher:

Voltaire Foundation,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xii, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Newspaper reading.
American newspapers--History--18th century.
English newspapers--History--18th century.
Reading interests--United States--History--18th century.
Reading interests--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Role of the press -- Consuming the newspaper -- Sorting the newspaper : printer- and reader compiled indexes -- The newspaper world on stage -- Quidnunc : the obsessive reader -- The reader as collector : shaping time and space.

Series:

SVEC, 0435-2866 ; 2012:03

ISBN:

0729410420 (pbk.)
9780729410427 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)778326813

LCCN:

2012379856

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)