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Zusatztext Popular culture is proverbially evanescent, so attempting to grasp the ephemera of an earlier age is a difficult task ... It is this vanished world that this impressive and authoritative volume, the first in the Oxford History of Popular Print Culture and the first of its kind, aims to recover ... [The] diversity is one of the book's major strengths, allowing the topic to be pursued across multiple different genres and critical perspectives. Informationen zum Autor Joad Raymond is Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia. His work explores early newspapers, politics, religion, and literary history, and the connections between these. Previous books include The Invention of the Newspaper (OUP, 1996), Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (CUP, 2003), Milton's Angels: The Early Modern Imagination (OUP, 2010) and various essays and edited books. He is presently editing Milton's Latin Defences for The Oxford Complete Works of John Milton, and also working on a project investigating early-modern international news networks. Klappentext From the early sixteenth century through to the later seventeenth, governments, institutions, and individuals learned to use cheaply-produced printed texts to inform, entertain, and persuade. This authoritative collection of essays examines the developing role of popular printed texts in the first two centuries of print in Britain and Ireland. Zusammenfassung From the early sixteenth century through to the later seventeenth, governments, institutions, and individuals learned to use cheaply-produced printed texts to inform, entertain, and persuade. This authoritative collection of essays examines the developing role of popular printed texts in the first two centuries of print in Britain and Ireland. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Tables List of Illustrations Notes on Conventions Notes on Contributors Chronology 1: Joad Raymond: Introduction: the origins of popular print culture Part one: Historical Contexts 2: Mike Braddick: England and Wales 3: Hamish Mathison: Scotland 4: Jane Ohlmeyer: Ireland 5: Tim Harris: Popular, Plebeian, Culture: Historical Definitions 6: Joad Raymond: The Development of the Book Trade in Britain 7: Anna Bayman: Printing, Learning and the Unlearned 8: Heidi Hackel: Popular Literacy and Society 9: Stephen Dobranski: Reading Strategies 10: Julie Crawford: Oral Culture and Popular Print 11: Andrew McRae: Manuscript Culture and Popular Print 12: Alastair Bellany: Libel 13: William H. Sherman: The Social Life of Books Part two: Some International Comparisons 14: Roger Chartier: France and Spain 15: Ottavia Niccoli: Italy 16: Margit Thøfner: The Netherlands 17: Alisha Rankin: Germany Part three: Themes 18: Peter Lake: Religion and Cheap Print 19: David Colclough: Rhetoric 20: Markku Peltonen: Political Argument 21: Helen Pierce: Images, Representation, and Counter-Representation 22: Sara Mendelson: Women and Print 23: Mark Jenner: London 24: Thomas Cogswell: Parliament and the Press 25: Nicole Greenspan: War Part four: Forms and Genres 26: Angela McShane: Ballads and Broadsides 27: Lori Newcomb: Romance 28: Joad Raymond: News 29: Simon Schaffer: Science 30: Mary Fissell: Popular Medical Writing 31: Lauren Kassell: Almanacs and Prognostications 32: Peter Burke: Popular History 33: Jason Peacey: Pamphlets 34: Lori Newcomb: Chapbooks 35: Mary Morrissey: Sermons, Primers, and Prayer Books 36: Natasha Glaisyer: Popular Didactic Literature 37: Zachary Lesser: Playbooks Part five: Case Studies 38: Tracey Sowerby: 1535 39: Cathy Shrank: 1553 40: Jesse Lander: 1588-9 41: Matthew Woodcock: 1603 42: Thomas Cogswell: 1625 43: Jason McElligott: 1641 44: Martin Dzelzainis: 1649 4...
