Journalism in English Literature in the Eighteenth Century | facexor

 

History of Journalism in English Literature in the Eighteenth Century.

Answer: The beginning of political writing arouses a contemporary appetite for reading in general, and the increasing practice of its satirical and fictional techniques help pave the way for the wonderful development in the popularity of narrative fiction in the next following decades. And it fueled other great new genres of the eighteenth century like periodic journalism. The great innovation in this field came with the credit of Richard Steele and Joseph Addison in The Tetra, and later in The Spectator. From politics to fashion, from aesthetics to the development of commerce, they tackled multiple issues in a familiar, urban style. After the relaxation of the restoration, they associated themselves with those who wanted to see the purification of etiquette and wrote about social and family relations with descriptive and reformative intentions. Their political affiliation is that while Sir Roger de Coverley and Huig were making, they drew a fun portrait of the landing Tory Square, endowed with good qualities, but shameless and anachronistic. On the contrary, they spoke with appreciation of the positive and respectable qualities produced by a healthy, and expansionist, mercantile community. More primitive of the two, Addison was a bold literary critic who instilled a respect for the psalm through his eloquent description of "Chevy Chase" and praised the joy of imagination in multiple research papers deeply influencing eighteenth-century thought. His long, thoughtful, and Milton Paradise Lost reputation played an important role in establishing the poem as a great epic of English literature and as a source of religious knowledge. The success with which Addison and Steele established the journal as a dignified form can be judged by the fact that by the end of the century they must have had more than three hundred imitators. Their awareness and curiosity about society, the way it developed, which they encouraged to interest and various readers, left its mark in later writings. Other periodic forms developed afterward in the century. Edward Cave invented the "magazine" concept. One of its early contributors was the young Samuel Johnson. Periodic writing was a major part of Johnson's career for writers such as Fielding and Goldsmith. It was from this time that the influence of review began to shape the output of literature and writers began to acknowledge their importance.