The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England: 17 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 17) - Softcover

Halasz

 
9780521034708: The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England: 17 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 17)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521034701 ISBN 13: 9780521034708
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining print culture, particularly the historical entanglement between the technology of print and a developing capitalism. Attention to the controversies surrounding their circulation reveals that pamphlets became a focus for anxieties about print culture in general. Alexandra Halasz combines close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Deloney and John Taylor, among others, with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology and its specifically English organization as a monopoly. Taking account of the theoretical and historical issues surrounding textual property, authorship and publicity, The Marketplace of Print, first published in 1997, is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing problems of the relationship between the marketplace and the public sphere.

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Review

"Those readers desiring a theoretical and largely economic approach to the production and dissemination of early modern pamphlets will be impressed...with both the content and dexterity of the analysis." Paul J. Voss, South Atlantic Review

"This is a valuable addition to existing studies of prose writing and the book trade..." Studies in English Literature

"This book will appeal most to literary 'new historicists' and 'cultural materialists' but can be read with profit by traditional historians." American Historical Review

Book Description

Combining close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Deloney and others with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology, this 1997 book is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing relationship between the marketplace and the public sphere.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521034701
ISBN 13 
9780521034708
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256

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