Political Controversy

A Study in Eighteenth-Century Propaganda

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Robert D Spector

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This work provides an examination of the 18th-century periodical "Political Controversy" and of the essay-sheets reprinted therein, "Briton", "Auditor", "North Briton" and "Monitor". These essay-sheets were published in England at the end of the Seven Years' War with France, in support of and in opposition to Lord Bute's proposed terms in the treaty negotiations. "Political Controversy" reprinted the essay-sheets weekly along with the editor's annotations, material from other publications, and original contributions from readers. The journal provides modern readers with a good example of 18th-century propaganda techniques, and is a guide to the issues revolving around the war, the struggle for governmental control, the British Empire, and the liberty of the press. The author provides an analysis of the methods used in the political propaganda of the journal and the essay-sheets, including the writings of three significant authors, Tobias Smollet, Arthur Murphy, and John Wilkes. The work opens with a discussion of the essay-sheets and their relationship to one another, and follows with two chapters devoted to "Political Controversy". The final chapter covers the most significant case for freedom of the press in England up to that time, "North Briton", No. 45.

Author Biography:

ROBERT D. SPECTOR is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Division of Humanities and the Division of Communications, Visual, and Performing Arts at Long Island University. His most recent books are The English Gothic (Greenwood Press, 1983) and Backgrounds to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Greenwood, 1989).

Release date Australia

February 28th, 1992

Author

Robert D Spector

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

200

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780313282065

Product ID

10096230

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