Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on dates; Abbreviations; 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 subjectivities; 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; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
An account of the handwritten pamphlet literature of early Stuart England that explains how contemporaries came to see events as political
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index