Impolite Periodicals

Emrys D. Jones is a senior lecturer in eighteenth-century literature and culture at King's College London.Adam James Smith>/b> is a senior lecturer in eighteenth-century literature at York St. John University in the United Kingdom.Katarina Stenke is a lecturer in eighteenth-century literature at the University of Greenwich in London.

"This excellent book productively agitates traditional thinking about periodicals in the first half of the eighteenth century. Alive to the multiple cultural, commercial, and political stakes of politeness and impoliteness, it allows us to take eighteenth-century periodicals on their own terms, in all their vitality and messiness." - Jennie Batchelor, author of The Lady's Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History"Delving the attractions and rhetorical potentials of impoliteness, this volume exposes the pleasures and anxieties polite periodicals found in their more unruly impulses, revealing the impolite instincts undergirding polite agendas, the impolite spaces pressuring authorship, and the discourteous discourses and legacies that upend soothing narratives of civility." - Mark Schoenfield, author of British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The "Literary Lower Empire"

• Editors' Note viiIntroduction 1PART ONE: Polite Agendas1 Situating Civility: Shaftesbury, Reformist Ridicule, and the Case of the Several Tatlers 172 Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and [Im]politeness After The Spectator 333 Polite Impostures: Addison's Orientalist Spectators 49PART TWO: Impolite Spaces4 "A Little Chasm in Conversation": Politeness and Faction in Political Periodicals of the 1730s 715 Originality, Obligation, and Offense in The British Magazine, 1746–1751 866 "The Witty Wink, and He! He! He!": Impolite Poetry in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Newspaper 101PART THREE: Impolite Discourses7 Conscience Is a Pair of Breeches: Terrae Filius Periodicals, 1707–1763 1178 "A Time When Banter Ought to Cease": Roasting, Jesting, and Bantering Readers 1309 "The World Is One Undistinguished Wild": James Boswell and the Hypochondriack Self 143PART FOUR: Impolite Legacies10 The Polished Read and Impolite Waste of The Spectator 16111 Addison's Errors 180Afterword 194Acknowledgments 199Bibliography 201Notes on Contributors 215Index 000