The Print in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Malcolm Jones is senior lecturer, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield. Klappentext This book provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints produced in Britain during the early modern era and brings to light some very recent discoveries. This large body of material is treated thematically, and within each theme, chronologically. Chapters are devoted to portents and prodigies, the formal moralities and doctrines of Christianity, the sects of Christianity, and the often vicious satire of the Catholic confession (but also of Protestant non-conformists) visual satire of foreigners and others, domestic political issues principally, the English Civil War social criticism and gender roles, marriage and sex, as well as numerical series and miscellaneous visual tricks, puzzles and jokes. The concluding chapter considers the significance of this wealth of visual material for the cultural history of England in the early modern era. Zusammenfassung The print repertoire of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England has been neglected historically. This book provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints produced in Britain during the early modern era and reveals significant discoveries from this visual storehouse.

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Jones, Malcom Jones
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.05.2010
• EAN: 9780300136975
• ISBN: 978-0-300-13697-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 258 mm x 295 mm x 42 mm
• Series: Studies in British Art; The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; England, ART / History / General, ART / European, ART / Prints, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Prints & printmaking, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Prints and printmaking