"Spectator"-Type Periodicals in International Perspective: Enlightened Moral Journalism in Europe and North America

Spectator-Type Periodicals in International Perspective: Enlightened Moral Journalism in Europe and North America
Preface
	Bibliography
Contents
The European Spectatorial Press in English: General Survey and Case Study on the Female Space in The Spectator and The Female Spectator
	Historical background
	The characteristics of The Spectator model
	The impact of the Spectator model
	The extent of the female space within The Spectator and The Female Spectator
	The implied readers of The Spectator and The Female Spectator
	The female reader correspondence of The Spectator and The Female Spectator
	Deliberations regarding the authenticity of the reader correspondence in The Spectator and The Female Spectator
	Considerations regarding the class differences among female correspondents
	Thematic categories of the letters
	Categories present only in The Spectator
	Categories present only in The Female Spectator
	Categories present in both The Spectator and The Female Spectator
	Conclusion
	Appendix I
	Appendix II
	Bibliography
Case Study: Cosmopolitanism, National Character, and Spectatorship. Oliver Goldsmith and the Magazines, 1759–1760
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press in Dutch
	1 Overview
	2 Origins of the genre (1718–1730)
	3 Rise and heyday of the genre (1730–1750)
	4 An established genre (1750–1770)
	5 Growing competition with other weeklies (1770–1790)
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press in French; The Early Period of French Spectatorial Writing
	Le Misantrope
	Le Spectateur ou le Socrate moderne
	Le Spectateur français
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
The Late Period of French Spectatorial Writing
	‘Les Spectatrices’ and Le Spectateur moderne
	Jean-François de Bastide
	Further successors of the Spectator genre
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press in Spanish: General Survey and Case Study on the Readers’ Letters
	Letters as key factors in the spectatorial genre
	El Duende Especulativo
	El Pensador
	La Pensadora Gaditana
	El Curioso Entretenido
	El Censor
	El Corresponsal del Censor
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press in Italian. Case Study: The Beginning of Spectatorial Writing in Italy in the Gazzetta Veneta
	Bibliography
Case Study: The Intercultural Dimension of Antonio Piazza’s Gazzetta urbana veneta
	A moral journal
	Migration of micro-narrations
	A visit to the lady’s library
	A reader’s letter
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press in German-Speaking Switzerland
	Two stages in the history of the Swiss weeklies
	The emergence of a Swiss-centered moral weekly caused by the rivalry between the Discourse der Mahler and the Freytags-Blättlein
	The Swiss weeklies between local, national and universal target readerships
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press from the Holy Roman Empire. Introductory Reflections
	Bibliography
The Early Spectatorial Press from the Area of Today’s Germany and Neighbouring Regions
	General survey
	Bibliography
The Late Spectatorial Press from the Area of Today’s Germany and Neighbouring Regions
	Continuity: Der Greis (1763–1769)
	Topical Restriction: Der Nordische Aufseher (1758–1760)
	An Official Project of Popular Enlightenment: Der Bürger (1765–1770)
	Specification of the Target Audience: Der Kinderfreund (1775–1782)
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press and the Spectator Offshoots from the Habsburg Hereditary Lands, from the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg and from the Kingdom of Hungary
	1 The Viennese moral weeklies
	2 The Spectator-type writings from Preßburg
	3 Moral weeklies in Upper Austria
	4 The Styrian Spectator-type projects
	5 A Spectator offshoot from Tyrol
	6 A late moral periodical from Salzburg
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press from the Kingdom of Bohemia
	The emergence, development, differentiation and decline of moral weeklies in Bohemia
	Moral weeklies as media of cultural transfer
	Moral weeklies as a factor of “Structural Transformation of the Public Space”
	Reception and reflection of the genre
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press from the Kingdom of Poland
	The origins and development of the press market in the Kingdom of Poland in the 18th century
	Spectator-type magazines from Royal Prussia
	Spectator-type periodicals from Warsaw
	Reception and research
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press from the Russian Empire: The Moral Weeklies from St. Petersburg
	Peculiarities of the emergence of Russian moral periodicals
	Moral weeklies in Saint Petersburg
	Moral weeklies by Nikolaj Novikov
	Moral weeklies by Johann Gottlieb Willamov
	An Outlook
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press from Riga
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press from the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway: General Survey
	Inspiration from translation
	Spectator journals and Spectator feuds in Copenhagen in the 1740s
	A ‘writing disease’?
	Foreign Spectators in Copenhagen
	1750–1785: new readerships, new content
	Female spectators
	Spectators for children
	Spectatorial projects in Norway
	Bibliography
Case Study: No Particular Place to go. Allegorical Devices in Jens Schelderup Sneedorff’s Den patriotiske Tilskuer
	In the taste of time
	The abstract’s genitive
	1 The Temple of Oblivion
	2 The Temple of Eloquence
	3 The Temple of Fame
	4 Ewald’s Temple of Fortune
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
The Spectatorial Press from the Kingdom of Sweden
	a) The contextual premises for the emergence of a moral spectatorial press in Sweden
	b) The 1730s– the genre’s prime time
		Sedolärande Mercurius – moral didactics and debate
		Then Swänska Argus – skilful satires and colourful language
		Three moral weeklies launched in 1738
	c) 1740–1765 – a time of setbacks
	d) Trends in 1766–1772
	Bibliography
The Periodical Essay and the Newspaper in 18th-Century British America
	Bibliography
A Case Study from Canada
	Introduction
	Historical and socio-political context
	The French printer Fleury Mesplet
	La Gazette du commerce et littéraire
	Contributors
	Content
	Censorship
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Index of Proper Names
Index of Periodicals
Back Matter