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9780199287048

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture Volume One: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

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    9780199287048

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-06-24
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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What did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its readers' lives? How was it produced and distributed? What were its relations to the wider world of print culture? How did it develop over time? These questions are central toThe Oxford Historyof Popular Print Culture, an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the later seventeenth, governments, institutions and individuals learned to use inexpensively-produced printed texts to inform, entertain, and persuade. Cheap print quickly became rooted in British and Irish culture, both elite and popular. This substantial and authoritative collection of essays - the first of its kind - examines the developing role of popular printed texts in the first two centuries of print in Britain and Ireland. Its forty-five chapters (with sixty-six illustrations) look at a broad range of historical and social contexts, at comparisons with other European countries, at the variety of content and themes in cheap printed texts, the forms and genres that developed with and were used by cheap print, and concludes with a series of case studies exploring the role of print in particular years. The book takes none of these terms - Popular, Print, Culture - for granted, but interrogates each of them with a rich, contoured picture of the relationship between a popular readership, the materiality of books, the economy of the book trade, and political and cultural history. Its forty-two contributors come from different disciplines and with expertise in fields from political and book history, through visual and material culture, to rhetoric and literature. These contributors do not all agree on definitions, or on the history that underlies them, but instead establish the ground for future debates and examinations of the role of cheap print in early-modern Britain.

Author Biography


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.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Introductionp. vii
Prefacep. ix
List of Tablesp. xi
List of Illustrationsp. xii
Notes on Conventionsp. xvi
Notes on Contributorsp. xviii
Chronologyp. xxiii
Introduction: The Origins of Popular Print Culturep. 1
Historical Contexts
England and Walesp. 17
Scotlandp. 31
Irelandp. 39
Popular, Plebeian, Culture: Historical Definitionsp. 50
The Development of the Book Trade in Britainp. 59
Printing, Learning, and the Unlearnedp. 76
Popular Literacy and Societyp. 88
Reading Strategiesp. 101
Oral Culture and Popular Printp. 114
Manuscript Culture and Popular Printp. 130
Libelp. 141
The Social Life of Booksp. 164
Some International Comparisons
France and Spainp. 175
Italyp. 187
The Netherlandsp. 196
Germanyp. 205
Themes
Religion and Cheap Printp. 217
Rhetoricp. 242
Political Argumentp. 252
Images, Representation, and Counter-representationp. 263
Women and Printp. 280
Londonp. 294
Parliament and the Pressp. 308
Warp. 320
Forms and Genres
Ballads and Broadsidesp. 339
Romancep. 363
Newsp. 377
Sciencep. 398
Popular Medical Writingp. 417
Almanacs and Prognosticationsp. 431
Popular Historyp. 443
Pamphletsp. 453
Chapbooksp. 471
Sermons, Primers, and Prayerbooksp. 491
Popular Didactic Literaturep. 510
Playbooks
1535p. 537
1553p. 548
1588-1589p. 557
1603p. 578
1625p. 589
1641p. 599
1649p. 609
1660p. 619
Bibliographyp. 629
Indexp. 649
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