Impolite Periodicals Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century

"This excellent book productively agitates traditional thinking about periodicals in the first half of the eighteenth century. Alive to the multiple cultural, commercial, and political stakes of politeness and impoliteness, it allows us to take eighteenth-century periodicals on their own terms, in all their vitality and messiness." - Jennie Batchelor, author of The Lady's Magazine (1770–1832) and the Making of Literary History

"Delving the attractions and rhetorical potentials of impoliteness, this volume exposes the pleasures and anxieties polite periodicals found in their more unruly impulses, revealing the impolite instincts undergirding polite agendas, the impolite spaces pressuring authorship, and the discourteous discourses and legacies that upend soothing narratives of civility." - Mark Schoenfield, author of British Periodicals and Romantic Identity: The "Literary Lower Empire"