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Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era’s growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces of information from country to country, from centre to periphery, and from press to subscribers. These journals became agents of change by mediating the increasingly profound and widespread urge to write and read and to engage in political debate.
This volume, edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej, presents contributions that explore this media revolution from a Northern perspective. The chapters throw new light on the reception of Enlightenment ideas and practices in Denmark–Norway, Sweden–Finland, and beyond. Taken together, they make a strong case for the transnational and revolutionary character of the Enlightenment as a whole.
This volume, edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej, presents contributions that explore this media revolution from a Northern perspective. The chapters throw new light on the reception of Enlightenment ideas and practices in Denmark–Norway, Sweden–Finland, and beyond. Taken together, they make a strong case for the transnational and revolutionary character of the Enlightenment as a whole.
Price: $227.00
Pages: 346
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word
Publication Date:
10 July 2015
ISBN: 9789004290051
Format: Other
“brilliant essays […]. This excellent collection should be read by anyone interested in Enlightenment thought and society”.
Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1045-1047.
Philipp Reisner, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1045-1047.
Ellen Krefting, Ph.D. (2005), University of Oslo, is Associate Professor in the History of Ideas at the Department of philosophy, classics, history of art and ideas (IFIKK), University of Oslo (Norway). She has published on 17th and 18th century intellectual history and media history in Europe and Denmark-Norway.
Aina Nøding, Ph.D. (2007), University of Oslo, is Research Fellow in Scandinavian Literature, University of Bergen. Her work includes publications on book history and media history in Denmark and Norway (1700–1900), and scholarly commentaries on Henrik Ibsen’s and Ludvig Holberg’s writings.
Mona Ringvej, Ph.D. (2004), University of Oslo, is an historian and editor. Her scholarly work includes publications on ancient political and cultural history, eighteenth- and nineteenth century political theory in Europe and press history in Denmark-Norway.
Aina Nøding, Ph.D. (2007), University of Oslo, is Research Fellow in Scandinavian Literature, University of Bergen. Her work includes publications on book history and media history in Denmark and Norway (1700–1900), and scholarly commentaries on Henrik Ibsen’s and Ludvig Holberg’s writings.
Mona Ringvej, Ph.D. (2004), University of Oslo, is an historian and editor. Her scholarly work includes publications on ancient political and cultural history, eighteenth- and nineteenth century political theory in Europe and press history in Denmark-Norway.