ENGC39H3 Lecture Notes - Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, The Female Spectator
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There are some important things that we need to know about the time period: About the booming print trade; they would print bibles, sermons, religious texts. Serial publications and periodicals very popular also anthologies and miscellanies. After 1750 books became a marker of social status. Female periodicals: the female spectator (eliza haywood), the lady"s. Reading was a social activity, reading as a community. People would sit at coffee houses and read, meet friends, meet work people, were somewhat like private clubs were informal institutions. In the 18th century jurgen habermas describes the 18th century coffee house as the model of democracy and is an paradigmatic institution where people come together without hierarchy and have an equality of voice. Collaborations, revision, writing and response, professional criticism, writer as celebrity. I believe there is hardly a day in which there is not something about me in the newspapers" samuel johnson- sense that writing is becoming a public role.
