| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : newspapers, forgeries and histories / Joad Raymond -- The decorum of news / Fritz Levy -- "The Itch grown a Disease" : manuscript transmission of news in the seventeenth century / Ian Atherton -- Pamphlet plays in the Civil War news market : genre, politics, and "context" / S.J. Wiseman -- Women in the business of Revolutionary news : Elizabeth Alkin, "Parliament Joan," and the Commonwealth newsbook / Marcus Nevitt -- The newspaper, public opinion, and the public sphere in the seventeenth century / Joad Raymond -- Timely notices : the uses of advertising and its relationship to news during the late seventeenth century / Michael Harris -- Constructing the frameworks of desire : how newspapers sold books in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Christine Ferdinand -- "Strung into action ..." : medicine, professionalism, and the news / G.S. Rousseau -- Tropes of promotion and wellbeing : advertisement and the eighteenth-century Scottish periodical press / Hamish Mathison |
| Notes |
"This group of studies first appeared in a special issue of Prose studies, vol. 21, no. 2 (August 1998)." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Press -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Press -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Journalism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Journalism -- Social aspects
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Press
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Raymond, Joad
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| ISBN |
9781315889382 |
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1315889382 |
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