1st Edition

Defoe's Review 1704-13, Volume 5 (1708-9), Part I

By John McVeagh Copyright 2008
    360 Pages
    by Routledge

    Discusses one of Daniel Defoe's greatest, but least known works, his periodical the "Review of the State of the British Nation". Defoe's Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion.