Manuscript Circulation and the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart - Englan

An account of the handwritten pamphlet literature of early Stuart England that explains how contemporaries came to see events as political.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Conditions of Production: 2. The social life of handwriting; 3. Tuning the instrument; 4. Performance and parliament; Part II. Subjects and Subjectivity: 5. Bristol's revenge; 6. Historians of the present; Part III. The Secret History of the State: 7. The antiquary and the malcontent; 8. The drift of the personal rule; 9. The ill-affected; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Noah Millstone is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Bristol. He was educated at the University of Chicago and Stanford University, California, where he received a Ph.D. in 2011. He has held fellowships at the Huntington Library, at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, Massachusetts, where he was a Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics between 2011 and 2014. His work has appeared in Past and Present, The Journal of British Studies, and elsewhere. This is his first book.

Summary

Pre-Civil War English political culture was shaped by an extensive pamphlet literature, which has remained unknown due to its handwritten form. Drawing from book history and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone reconstructs the world of manuscript pamphleteering to explain how contemporaries came to see their world as political.

Product details

• Authors: Noah Millstone, Noah (University of Bristol) Millstone, Millstone Noah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2016
• EAN: 9781107120723
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12072-3
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; England, European History, English, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700