Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Volume One: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-928704-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1373 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raymond, Joad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

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.