Download or read book Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay written by R. Squibbs and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context.