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Media & Mediation in the Eighteenth Century

Corfield, Penelope and Nordin, Jonas LU orcid (2023)
Abstract
While eighteenth-century print media in essence rested on the same technical apparatus as previous centuries – letterpress printing, woodcuts, and intaglio prints – the growth in quantity created a media revolution. The effect was a qualitative shift in terms of literacy, growth of newspapers, the spread of images, and distribution of knowledge, but also of misinformation and propaganda. In this volume eight scholars investigate various aspects of media and mediation in the history, culture, and politics of the eighteenth century.
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editor
Corfield, Penelope and LU orcid
organization
publishing date
type
Book/Report
publication status
published
subject
keywords
media, mediation, eighteenth century, book history, Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Denis Diderot
pages
224 pages
publisher
Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Division of Book History, Lund University
ISBN
978-91-527-7122-8
978-91-527-7146-4
DOI
10.37852/oblu.209
language
English
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yes
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0d9db138-65e8-4a6f-8575-c607567a6f3f
date added to LUP
2023-06-07 13:16:55
date last changed
2025-04-04 15:33:28
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