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Margaret J. M. Ezell explores early English periodicals as forms of social interaction as well as printed literature. Looking at seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century publications, she examines how editors, contributors, and readers helped make serial publications into places for exchanging questions, opinions, knowledge, and creative writing.
Examples include the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions, John Dunton’s Athenian Mercury, and Peter Motteux’s Gentleman’s Journal. The study considers news, topicality, audience participation, and the commercial conditions of print, connecting the habits of sociable reading with the development of periodical authorship. It offers a literary history of media shaped through exchanges among the people who produced and read them.
Margaret J. M. Ezell. Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media. Cambridge University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108866590. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Original edition unchanged.