Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

Informationen zum Autor Joad Raymond is Lecturer in English Literature, University of East Anglia Klappentext A history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of figures; Preface; Notes on conventions; Prologue: changing experiences, 1588, 1642, 1688; 1. What is a pamphlet?; 2. 'How loudely they cry': Marprelate, purity and paper bullets; 3. 'Stitchers, Binders, Stationers, Hawkers': printing practices and the book trade; 4. 'A mongrel race of Mercuries lately sprung up': the business of news, c. 1580-1660; 5. 'From words to blowes': Scottish origins of the explosion of print, 1637-42; 6. 'This bookish partiall formall fierce factious animositous age': printing revolutions, 1641-60; 7. 'Speaking abroad': gender, female authorship and pamphleteering; 8. 'A Bog of Plots, Sham-plots, Subordinations and Perjuries': pamphlets and polemic in the Restoration; Epilogue; Index of names and titles; General index.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Joad, Joad Raymond, Joad (University of East Anglia) Raymond
• Assisted by: Anthony Fletcher (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521028776
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02877-6
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History