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Journal Article
PRINT AFTERLIVES: (RE)FORMING THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICAL
2025
Overview
Stamped with the date on which they first appeared, periodicals are, by definition, time bound and destined to expire shortly after publication. However, the fact that periodically produced works from the eighteenth century survive to this day evidences the form's capacity to take on a sustained life, or an afterlife, beyond the original publication date. This article explores the 'afterlives' of periodical print to consider how readers interacted with periodicals. It focuses largely on the changing materiality of Joseph Addison's periodicals, and what this means for implied reading practices. The article builds on methodologies advanced by book historians to explore how the changing material qualities of periodicals facilitate vibrant textual afterlives. It concludes by offering two case studies, The Covent-Garden Journal (1752) and Common Sense (1737-43). The first of these explores the seeming incongruity in choosing to bind, gild, and extra-illustrate works that are supposedly ephemeral and disposable, while the second examines annotations to reveal who was originally reading issues of Common Sense and where they were doing so.
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Chadwyck-Healey Ltd
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