"printsellers" - 1 õppematerjal

EXAM - English literature 2

18th C, London cultural mecca of the Augustan age, great urban development, the city of enlightenment, scientific revolution. Cultural efforescence linked with remarkable economic and financial boom (ordinary people better off). Emergence of professional writer (A.Pope) -> because there was audience like never before („middling sort” – merchant and professional classes). New cultural activity thanks to: paper, printers, publishers, engravers, printsellers. In 1695 lapse of Licencing Act, censorship ceased, Stationers’ Company lost its monopoly. By the 1720 publishing industry scatterd through the city. Provincial press also expanded. Thus, emergence of magazines (the Tatler, the Spectator – foundation stones of early georgian cultural attitudes, then Gentleman’s Magazine, Universal Magazine), journals (Connoisseur, Critical review), everywhere newspapers came into being. Publishing