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The periodical literature published in Ireland from 1730, when the phenomenon of the miscellany is about to appear in England, to 1789 and the eve of the French Revolution, was a relatively popular medium of communication reaching a wide public both geographically and socially, but has been largely ignored by scholars.1 We study here magazines which reviewed, catalogued or reproduced contemporary literature. Our aim is to build up a profile of France, French culture and specifically writings of the Enlightenment as presented to an Irish readership through periodicals, to complement the information provided in Chapter 1 on the dissemination of French books.
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For Britain see British Literary Magazines. The Augustan Age and the Age of Johnson, ed. Alvin Sullivan (London: 1983); Walter Graham, English Literary Periodicals (New York: 1966).
Cf. Vincent Kinnane, ‘The Early book trades in Galway’, in Books Beyond the Pale. Aspects of the Provincial Book Trade in Ireland before 1850, ed. G. Long (Dublin: 1996) pp. 51–73.
(Amsterdam: 1733), ed. Lenglet Dufresnoy: cf. G. Sheridan, Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy and the literary underworld of the ancien régime (Studies, 262: 1989) pp. 136–41.
See M. Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes (Paris: 1822) ii, p. 399.
From abbé Paul-François Velly, Historical Extracts Relating to Laws, Customs, Manners, Trade (London: 1769). Velly was a mild critic of Voltaire.
A translation of the ‘Eloge de M. le président Montesquieu’ which d’Alembert wrote for the Academy, and which was published with De l’Esprit des lois in London in 1757.
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Sheridan, G. (1999). Irish Literary Review Magazines and Enlightenment France: 1730–1790. In: Gargett, G., Sheridan, G. (eds) Ireland and the French Enlightenment, 1700–1800. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510159_2
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