Media and Mediation in the Eighteenth Century

Penelope J. Corfield; Jonas Nordin; Sophie Holm; Ylva Haidenthaller; Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis; Halima Ouanada; Maria Isabel Limongi; Antônio Carlos dos Santos

doi:10.37852/oblu.209

Media and Mediation in the Eighteenth Century

Authors

Penelope J. Corfield (ed)

Jonas Nordin (ed)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37852/oblu.209

Synopsis

While eighteenth-century print media in essence rested on the same technical apparatus as in previous centuries – letterpress printing, woodcuts, and intaglio prints – the growth in quantity created a media revolution. The effect was a qualitative shift in terms of literacy, growth of newspapers, the spread of images and distribution of knowledge, but also of misinformation and propaganda. In this volume eight scholars from three continents investigate various aspects of media and mediation in the history, culture, and politics of the eighteenth century.

Chapters

Introduction: ‘The Electric Sensibility’ of the Emergent Mass Media

Penelope J. Corfield
Introduction: « La sensibilité électrique » des médias de masse émergents

Penelope J. Corfield
Mediating Images of Monarchy from Castle to Cottage in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Jonas Nordin
‘In a city flooded with pamphlets’
Foreign Diplomats Monitoring and Spreading the News in Eighteenth-Century Stockholm

Sophie Holm
Putting Faces to Names
Printed Portraits in Late Eighteenth-Century Stockholm

Ylva Haidenthaller
Ways of Seeing
Conceptions of Visuality in Enlightenment Philosophy

Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Presse et « société des savants » pour la fabrique de l’opinion au XVIIIe siècle

Halima Ouanada
Visual and Metaphorical Representations of the State in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan

Maria Isabel Limongi
The Changing Identity of the ‘Atheist’
Detecting Echoes of John Locke in Diderot’s Encyclopédie

Antônio Carlos dos Santos