Acknowledgements IX
Notes on Contributors XI
List of Illustrations XVIII
Part 1
Introduction
A Network of Networks: Spreading the News in an Expanding World of Information 3
Paul Goring
Part 2
Exordium
1
Truth and Trust and the Eighteenth-Century Anglophone Newspaper 27
William B. Warner
Part 3
Archival Limits
2
Searching for Dr. Johnson: The Digitisation of the Burney Newspaper Collection 51
Andrew Prescott
3
Spreading the News within the Clerical Profession: Newspapers and the Church in the North of England, 1660–1760 72
Daniel Reed
Part 4
Manuscript, Print, Word of Mouth
4
All the News That’s Fit to Write: The Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Newsletter 95
Rachael Scarborough King
5
Heiko Droste and Ingrid Maier
6
Daniel C. Waugh
Part 5
Foreign Reporting
7
Marius Warholm Haugen
8
Foreign News Reporting in Transition: James Perry and the French Constitution Ceremony 181
Johanne Kristiansen
9
Diplomatic Channels and Chinese Whispers: Reception and Transformation of the Moscow Uprising of 1648 in Sweden and France 203
Malte Griesse
Part 6
Advertising
10
From Piety to Profit: The Development of Newspaper Advertising in the Dutch Golden Age 233
Arthur der Weduwen
11
Mercury as Merchant: The Advertisement of Novels in Eighteenth-Century Provincial English Newspapers 254
Siv Gøril Brandtzæg
Part 7
Control
12
Establishing a State-controlled Network for News Trading in the Swedish Baltic Provinces in the Late Seventeenth Century: Causes and Consequences 279
Kaarel Vanamölder
13
News versus Opinion: The State, the Press, and the Northern Enlightenment 299
Ellen Krefting
Part 8
Endpiece
14
Was There an Enlightenment Culture of News? 321
Andrew Pettegree
Bibliography 343
Index 368