Periodicals were an integral part of eighteenth-century European civilisation. This volume brings together original articles in English and French dealing with the press both in the main centres of Enlightenment thought and in such often-neglected countries as Portugal and Sweden. The contributions span the long eighteenth century, from Germany in the 1690s to Britain in the post-Napoleonic era. They cover the full range of the period’s press, including manuscript newsletters, political gazettes, learned journals and revolutionary propaganda sheets. João Lisboa and Marie-Christine Skuncke...