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Author(s): Joad Raymond
ISBN(s): 9780199287048, 019928704X
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Year: 2011
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ISBN 10: 019928704X

ISBN 13: 9780199287048

Author: Joad Raymond

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.

Table of contents:

1:Introduction: the origins of popular print culture, Joad Raymond

Part one: Historical Contexts

2:England and Wales, Mike Braddick

3:Scotland, Hamish Mathison

4:Ireland, Jane Ohlmeyer

5:Popular, Plebeian, Culture: Historical Definitions, Tim Harris

6:The Development of the Book Trade in Britain, Joad Raymond

7:Printing, Learning and the Unlearned, Anna Bayman

8:Popular Literacy and Society, Heidi Hackel

9:Reading Strategies, Stephen Dobranski

10:Oral Culture and Popular Print, Julie Crawford

11:Manuscript Culture and Popular Print, Andrew McRae

12:Libel, Alastair Bellany

13:The Social Life of Books, William H. Sherman

Part two: Some International Comparisons

14:France and Spain, Roger Chartier

15:Italy, Ottavia Niccoli

16:The Netherlands, Margit Thøfner

17:Germany, Alisha Rankin

Part three: Themes

18:Religion and Cheap Print, Peter Lake

19:Rhetoric, David Colclough

20:Political Argument, Markku Peltonen

21:Images, Representation, and Counter-Representation, Helen Pierce

22:Women and Print, Sara Mendelson

23:London, Mark Jenner

24:Parliament and the Press, Thomas Cogswell

25:War, Nicole Greenspan

Part four: Forms and Genres

26:Ballads and Broadsides, Angela McShane

27:Romance, Lori Newcomb

28:News, Joad Raymond

29:Science, Simon Schaffer

30:Popular Medical Writing, Mary Fissell

31:Almanacs and Prognostications, Lauren Kassell

32:Popular History, Peter Burke

33:Pamphlets, Jason Peacey

34:Chapbooks, Lori Newcomb

35:Sermons, Primers, and Prayer Books, Mary Morrissey

36:Popular Didactic Literature, Natasha Glaisyer

37:Playbooks, Zachary Lesser

Part five: Case Studies

38:1535, Tracey Sowerby

39:1553, Cathy Shrank

40:1588-9, Jesse Lander

41:1603, Matthew Woodcock

42:1625, Thomas Cogswell

43:1641, Jason McElligott

44:1649, Martin Dzelzainis

45:1660, Gerald MacLean

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