On 6 October 1822, an advertisement announcing the launch of “The New Periodical Work from Italy” appeared in _The Examiner_ – John Hunt being the publisher of both the newspaper and the new journal. The appellation ‘liberal’, indicating a general progress of opinion, had assumed an expanding range of connotations “throughout Europe” – i.e., across a wide international context. The ongoing transformation in the semantics of the qualifier / liberal/ is the object of the editor’s pointed discussion in the “Preface” to the inaugural number, which piercingly debunks the hypocritical advocation of the term in conservative discourse, and for this reason poses itself as a key programmatic document, intended to define not only the journal’s politics but also its poetics, as this paper intends to show.
"Cockney Imprint: _The Liberal_ and Its Reception, 1822"
Franca Dellarosa
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2023-01-01
Abstract
On 6 October 1822, an advertisement announcing the launch of “The New Periodical Work from Italy” appeared in _The Examiner_ – John Hunt being the publisher of both the newspaper and the new journal. The appellation ‘liberal’, indicating a general progress of opinion, had assumed an expanding range of connotations “throughout Europe” – i.e., across a wide international context. The ongoing transformation in the semantics of the qualifier / liberal/ is the object of the editor’s pointed discussion in the “Preface” to the inaugural number, which piercingly debunks the hypocritical advocation of the term in conservative discourse, and for this reason poses itself as a key programmatic document, intended to define not only the journal’s politics but also its poetics, as this paper intends to show.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
