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...Peter M. Briggs Dunton's journalistic Athenian Mercury and his proto-novel A Voyage Round the World , both from 1691, imply through their strategies of presentation significantly different ideas of authorship. Experimenting with a participatory format that paired readers' questions on a variety...

... of exactly the same advice in the 4,000 lines of John Dunton's The Pulpit-Fool , published in 1707, serves to alert us to the possibility that Sterne echoes a long tradition of irenic and moral preaching after the religious wars of the seventeenth century. Dunton offers more than 200 preachers, across...

... was in a London journal, John Dunton’s Athenian Mercury; and Rowe’s contributions led in 1696 to the London publication of her collected Poems on Several Occasions by Philomela. Also, the commercial success of the Mercury—one of the most widely read Whig periodicals...

... Theodore Newton informs us that Pittis convivially associated with men like Tom Brown, Ned Ward, and Thomas D’Urfey, 94 Eighteenth-Century Life moving in a distinctly Tory circle (unlike Swift, at this stage). He is given the dubious honor of a chapter in Dunton’s 1706 Whipping Post, in which...

... and the instigator of several textual hoaxes.11 In 1696 he was in the employ of the bookseller John Dunton (1659 – 1732), who noted Gildon’s proficiency as a man who, “Writes with a peculiar Briskness, which the common Hacks can’t boast of, in Regard, they want the Life and Spirit, and the same Liberty...

... on the same saying I could do worse with it if I could.” The printed word had a varied life in the seventeenth century, not always revolutionary. John Dunton visited the library of Trinity College Dublin in 1698 and found its books dis- played with a male skeleton, medals, and other curiosities...

... columnist (the “Inspector as a singularity, omitting the mention of pro- fuse polymaths such as John Dunton, or Alexander Cruden, or even Johnson, Addison, and Steele (see 123). Musing that Hill became a celebrity, indeed a “household name” despite no one knowing “why or how” (155), Rousseau, who...

... Anne, and George I (1733), Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy s Histoire amoureuses des Gaules (1670), and John Dunton s The Athenian Oracle (1704). Among the many vestiges of authors and anonymous texts not in his library whom Swift can be shown to have read (as identi‰ed by Dirk Passman and Heinz...

... such as the Lincoln assizes.49 That both John Dunton’s Athenian Mercury (1691–97) and Addison and Steele’s Spectator (1711–14) purported to record the proceedings of a society of gentlemen suggests the potential appeal of this kind of authorization— or mock authorization—of published information and opinion...

... Occasions. Written by Philomela (London: John Dunton, 1696), 1–4. 12. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, “Love and Friendship: A Pastoral,” in Miscellaneous Works (London: R. Hett, 1739), ll. 11–13. 13. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, “Upon the Death of her Husband, By Mrs. Singer,” in Poems on Several...

... Life DeMaria’s contribution, “The Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay,” reviews the genre’s complete history from its inception, when John Dunton established The Athenian Mercury in 1691, through its dominant phase, shortly after John- son fi nished The Rambler in 1752, to its demise...