Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

by Joad Raymond

• ISBN13: 9780521028776
• ISBN10: 0521028779
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book shows the coherence of the literary form and the diversity of genres and imaginative devices employed by pamphleteers. Individual chapters examine Elizabethan religious controversy, the book trade, the distribution of pamphlets, pamphleteering in the English Civil War, women and gender, and print in the Restoration.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	viii
List of figures	xi
Preface	xiii
Notes on conventions	xv
Prologue: Changing experiences 1588, 1642, 1688	1	(3)
What is a pamphlet?	4	(23)
`How loudely they cry': Marprelate, purity and paper bullets	27	(26)
`Stitchers, Binders, Stationers, Hawkers': printing practices and the book trade	53	(45)
`A mongrel race of Mercuries lately sprung up': the business of news, c. 1580--1660	98	(63)
`From words to blowes': Scottish origins of the explosion of print, 1637--42	161	(41)
`This bookish partiall formall fierce factious animositous age': printing revolutions, 1641--60	202	(74)
`Speaking abroad': gender, female authorship and pamphleteering	276	(47)
`A Bog of Plots, Sham-plots, Subornations and Perjuries': pamphlets and polemic in the Restoration	323	(60)
Epilogue	383	(2)
Index of names and titles	385	(16)
General index	401