Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"In Pamphlets and Pamphleteering Raymond follows the forms and fortunes of print ephemera from the late sixteenth century well into the Restoration... What Raymond captures, and quite wonderfully, is the way in which Dryden's poem is spun out of a heady mixture of gossip, news, literary polemics, and political argument." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"Raymond has used his prodigious reading to produce a remarkably stimulating, engaging, and... convincing narrative of the rise and decline of pamphlets in Britain." H-Albion
Synopsis
This is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It discusses pamphlets as a means of influencing politics and public opinion - as commercial products, physical objects and as a literary form.
Synopsis
A history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.
About the Author
Joad Raymond is Lecturer in English Literature, University of East Anglia
Table of Contents
List of illustrations; List of figures; Preface; Notes on conventions; Prologue: changing experiences, 1588, 1642, 1688; 1. What is a pamphlet?; 2. âHow loudely they cryâ: Marprelate, purity and paper bullets; 3. âStitchers, Binders, Stationers, Hawkersâ: printing practices and the book trade; 4. âA mongrel race of Mercuries lately sprung upâ: the business of news, c. 1580 1660; 5. âFrom words to blowesâ: Scottish origins of the explosion of print, 1637 42; 6. âThis bookish partiall formall fierce factious animositous ageâ: printing revolutions, 1641 60; 7. âSpeaking abroadâ: gender, female authorship and pamphleteering; 8. âA Bog of Plots, Sham-plots, Subordinations and Perjuriesâ: pamphlets and polemic in the Restoration; Epilogue; Index of names and titles; General index.