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The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
Volume One: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Edited by Joad Raymond
704 pages
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Numerous black-and-white halftones
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246x171mm
978-0-19-928704-8
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Hardback
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21 April 2011
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- First comprehensive work on the subject
- Provides a series of complementary perspectives on an enormous topic so as to define the whole area
- Broad range of expert contributors
- Generously illustrated
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 History of 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.Readership: Students and scholars of early-modern literature and history
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Edited by Joad Raymond, Professor of English Literature, University of East Anglia 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.
Contributors:
Anna Bayman, University of Oxford
Alastair Bellany, Rutgers University
Michael Braddick, University of Sheffield
Peter Burke, University of Cambridge
Roger Chartier, Collège de France
Thomas Cogswell, University of California, Riverside.
David Colclough, Queen Mary, University of London
Julie Crawford, Columbia University
Stephen B. Dobranski, Georgia State University
Martin Dzelzainis, University of Leicester
Mary Fissell, Johns Hopkins University
Natasha Glaisyer, University of York
Nicole Greenspan, Hampden-Sydney College
Heidi Brayman Hackel, University of California at Riverside
Tim Harris, Brown University
Mark Jenner, University of York
Lauren Kassell, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge
Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University
Jesse M. Lander, University of Notre Dame
Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania
Gerald MacLean, University of Exeter
Hamish Mathison, University of Sheffield
Jason McElligott, Trinity College Dublin
Angela McShane, V&A, London
Mary Morrissey, University of Reading
Ottavia Niccoli, University of Trento (I)
Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College, Dublin
Jason Peacey, UCL
Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki
Helen Pierce, University of York
Alisha Rankin, Tufts University
Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge
William H. Sherman, University of York
Cathy Shrank, University of Sheffield
Tracey Sowerby, Pembroke College, Oxford
Margit Thøfner, University of East Anglia
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"a sophisticated, balanced overview of the current state of research into the social, cultural and political role popular print played in early modern Britain ... it will prove to be indispensible for scholars researching the cultural history of this period, as well as for librarians whose role it is to preserve these ephemeral relics of the past for future generations." - Erika Delbecque, University of Surrey "the very considerable range of contemporary printed sources deployed here is testimony to the contributors and their subject alike." - David McKitterick, Library and Information History "Popular culture is proverbially evanescent, so attempting to grasp the ephemera of an earlier age is a
difficult task ... It is this vanished world that this impressive and authoritative volume, the first in the Oxford History of Popular Print Culture and the first of its kind, aims to recover ... [The] diversity is one of the book's major strengths, allowing the topic to be pursued across multiple different genres and critical perspectives." - Harriet Phillips, Cambridge Quarterly
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Preface
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Notes on Conventions
Notes on Contributors
Chronology
1: Joad Raymond: Introduction: the origins of popular print culture
Part one: Historical Contexts
2: Mike Braddick: England and Wales
3: Hamish Mathison: Scotland
4: Jane Ohlmeyer: Ireland
5: Tim Harris: Popular, Plebeian, Culture: Historical Definitions
6: Joad Raymond: The Development of the Book Trade in Britain
7: Anna Bayman: Printing, Learning and the Unlearned
8: Heidi Hackel: Popular Literacy and Society
9: Stephen Dobranski: Reading Strategies
10: Julie Crawford: Oral Culture and Popular Print
11: Andrew McRae: Manuscript Culture and Popular Print
12: Alastair Bellany: Libel
13: William H. Sherman: The Social Life of Books
Part two: Some International Comparisons
14: Roger Chartier: France and Spain
15: Ottavia Niccoli: Italy
16: Margit Thøfner: The Netherlands
17: Alisha Rankin: Germany
Part three: Themes
18: Peter Lake: Religion and Cheap Print
19: David Colclough: Rhetoric
20: Markku Peltonen: Political Argument
21: Helen Pierce: Images, Representation, and Counter-Representation
22: Sara Mendelson: Women and Print
23: Mark Jenner: London
24: Thomas Cogswell: Parliament and the Press
25: Nicole Greenspan: War
Part four: Forms and Genres
26: Angela McShane: Ballads and Broadsides
27: Lori Newcomb: Romance
28: Joad Raymond: News
29: Simon Schaffer: Science
30: Mary Fissell: Popular Medical Writing
31: Lauren Kassell: Almanacs and Prognostications
32: Peter Burke: Popular History
33: Jason Peacey: Pamphlets
34: Lori Newcomb: Chapbooks
35: Mary Morrissey: Sermons, Primers, and Prayer Books
36: Natasha Glaisyer: Popular Didactic Literature
37: Zachary Lesser: Playbooks
Part five: Case Studies
38: Tracey Sowerby: 1535
39: Cathy Shrank: 1553
40: Jesse Lander: 1588-9
41: Matthew Woodcock: 1603
42: Thomas Cogswell: 1625
43: Jason McElligott: 1641
44: Martin Dzelzainis: 1649
45: Gerald MacLean: 1660
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