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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

Quillette is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for

heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this

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I'm your host this week, Iona Italia. This episode of the podcast will be slightly different

from usual. The philosopher is Stephen Harrow, who teaches at King's College London,

will be interviewing me about my book, The Rise of Literary Journalism in the 18th century,

Anxious Employment, published by Routledge, UP in 2005. We'll be discussing the legal, technological,

and political circumstances that led to the establishment of the first periodical publications in London at the end of the 17th century,

as well as the kinds of Personé journalists chose for themselves, the development of the first magazines, and how all this relates to beliefs about class, sex, the public sphere and social unity.

The Enlightenment is a fascinating period in British history, and in the history of ideas more generally,

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