The invention of the newspaper : English newsbooks, 1641-1649 /
The first weekly newspapers, or 'newsbooks', appeared in 1641. The reasons for their appearance have never been fully understood. The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Online Access: | 1996. Publisher description |
| Summary: | The first weekly newspapers, or 'newsbooks', appeared in 1641. The reasons for their appearance have never been fully understood. The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Raymond explores the newsbook's unique place in the flourishing political print culture of the 1640s, showing how it drew from and then reformed elements of literary culture, being both produced by a public hunger for news and, in turn, creating a market for news. The Invention of the Newspaper explores evidence for the distribution and readership of seventeenth-century news publications, which suggests that the early newsbooks were widely read and highly influential, and that - even today - they influence the way in which seventeenth-century history is perceived. Charting the newsbook's development as a genre, its narrative forms, literary merits and influences, and its relationship to other vehicles of communication, printed and spoken, such as sermons, almanacs, and play-pamphlets, Raymond presents a detailed exploration of the newsbook's gradual dominance of the market for information. |
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| Item Description: | A Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Magdalen College, Oxford. From the Library of Craig Kallendorf. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 379 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-365) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198130023 9780198130024 9780199282340 019928234X |