ENG-3803 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Joseph Priestley, The Spectator (1711), The News Letter
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1700 william iii is king, followed by queen anne, followed by george i (all in 20 years). British empire, taking newfoundland, acadia, and hudson bay from france. 1707 uk formed, england, wales, scotland joined by parliamentary union. List of texts declaimed by the catholic church. Printed book trade =a person or firm which turns the authors work into a form in which it can be distributed and sold. Idea of childhood as a protected time period. Emergence of all kinds of intellectual groups and societies. Invented the first timeline (also invented humanitarianism and discovered oxygen) Organization of knowledge (charts, graphs, grammar books, etc. ) 1550 motive to create new books by market demad. General interest magazines: the gentlemen"s magazine (1731) core product of the period. Qualities: little peer review, middle class audience directly, lower indirect. Invention of the author through the implementation of copyright.
