The Edinburgh Periodical Press Being a Bibliographical Account of the Newspaper

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The Edinburgh Periodical Press Being a Bibliographical Account of the Newspaper
W J William James Couper
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In the spring of 1709 the essay started on a new lease of life. When this species of com- position had been given to the public hitherto it was in the ordinary volume form. In that year Steele, with the help of Addison, created the periodical essay. Necessarily the change modified tlie character of the composition some- what. Besides the definite sequence, it was found convenient to issue the numbers anony- mously, although the authorship was allowed to leak out after a reasonable interval. The... subject matter had also to be somewhat different. Reference to contemporary conditions and events was advisable in at least some of the numbers. Steele accordingly "treated of everything that 140 The Edinhurgh Periodical Press.
was going on in the world. He paints as a social humourist the whole age of Queen Anne — the political and literary disputes, the fine gentlemen and ladies, the characters of men, the humours of society, the new book, the new play ; we live in the very streets and drawing-rooms of old London.


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