Manuscript circulation and the invention of politics in early Stuart England /
"In the decades before the Civil War, English readers confronted an extensive and influential pamphlet literature. This literature addressed contemporary events in scathingly critical terms, was produced in enormous quantities and was devoured by the curious. Despite widespread contemporary int...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Conditions of production. The social life of handwriting ; Tuning the instrument ; Performance and parliament
- Part II. Subjects and subjectivities. Bristol's revenge ; Historians of the present
- Part III. The secret history of the state. The antiquary and the malcontent ; The drift of the personal rule ; The ill-affected
- Conclusion.