News Networks In Seventeenth Century Britain And Europe

by Raymond; Joad

• ISBN13: 9780415360081
• ISBN10: 0415360080
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over the past decade, newspaper history has taken a cultural turn: a familiar political bibliographical narrative, which had been the model for newspaper history since about 1860, has been rescripted through a range of new multi-disciplinary interests shared in particular with the history of political thought and the history of books and of reading. A new narrative of the early history of news and the media is emerging, and it raises questions which will be central to future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. What is the relationship between the circulation of news in Britain and communication networks elsewhere in Europe? Was the British development of the media unique? What are the specific rhetorical properties of news-communication in 17th century Britain? What was the relationship between commerce and politics? How do local exchanges of news relate to national practices and institutions? This volume offers a series of case studies exemplifying the newnewspaper history, and seeks to establish an agenda for answering some of these questions. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journalMedia History.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and a Note on Dates
Introduction: networks, communication, practice	1	(18)
Joad Raymond
Posts, Newsletters, Newspapers: England in a European system of communications	19	(16)
Paul Arblaster
Paolo Sarpi and the Uses of Information in Seventeenth-Century Venice	35	(16)
Filippo de Vivo
Ben Jonson and the Serial Publication of News	51	(16)
Marcus Nevitt
Spoken Discourse in Early English Newspapers	67	(18)
Nicholas Brownlees
`A Couple of Hundred Squabbling Small Tradesmen'? Censorship, the Stationers' Company, and the state in early modern England	85	(18)
Jason McElligott
News, Intelligence, and Espionage at the Exiled Court at Cologne: the case of Henry Manning	103	(22)
Nicole Greenspan
John Starkey and Ideological Networks in Late Seventeenth-Century England	125	(20)
Mark Knights
Robert Hepburn and the Edinburgh Tatler: a study in an early British periodical	145	(16)
Hamish Mathison
Notes on the Contributors	161	(2)
Index	163