Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century

Impolite Periodicals brings together a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century periodical publication, not simply to argue that periodicals, such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, could be impolite, but to explore how readings of their potential impoliteness might affect our understanding of their literary and social significance.

EMRYS D. JONES is a senior lecturer in eighteenth-century literature and culture at King’s College London.

ADAM JAMES SMITH 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.