Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change

Perspectives on Northern Enlightenment
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29005-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 718 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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 information from country to country, from centre to periphery, and from press to subscribers. These journals became agents of change by mediating the increasingly profound and widespread urge to write and read and to engage in political debate.

This volume, edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej, presents contributions that explore this media revolution from a Northern perspective. The chapters throw new light on the reception of Enlightenment ideas and practices in Denmark–Norway, Sweden–Finland, and beyond. Taken together, they make a strong case for the transnational and revolutionary character of the Enlightenment as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krefting, Ellen

Nøding, Aina

Ringvej, Mona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Krefting, Ph.D. (2005), University of Oslo, is Associate Professor in the History of Ideas at the Department of philosophy, classics, history of art and ideas (IFIKK), University of Oslo (Norway). She has published on 17th and 18th century intellectual history and media history in Europe and Denmark-Norway.

Aina Nøding, Ph.D. (2007), University of Oslo, is Research Fellow in Scandinavian Literature, University of Bergen. Her work includes publications on book history and media history in Denmark and Norway (1700–1900), and scholarly commentaries on Henrik Ibsen’s and Ludvig Holberg’s writings.

Mona Ringvej, Ph.D. (2004), University of Oslo, is an historian and editor. Her scholarly work includes publications on ancient political and cultural history, eighteenth- and nineteenth century political theory in Europe and press history in Denmark-Norway.