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News, Newspapers and Society in Early Modern Britain
About this book
Between 1600 and 1800 newspapers and periodicals moved to the centre of British culture and society. This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion.
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Index
Abel Roper 149
Ackers, Charles, printer 159, 170–72
Addison, Joseph 128, 132, 176, 178, 179, 180
advertising 26, 128, 141–54 passim
books 141–2, 153, 157–73, 215–8
language of 167–8, 172–3, 206–23
medical 145, 153, 160, 161, 168, 177, 181, 184–8, 206–23
as a means of catching criminals 126, 147–8
Akenside, Mark 192
alcohol 115–16
alehouses and taverns 44, 54, 117
Alkin, Elizabeth 87–102
Allde, Edward 160
Alsop, Benjamin 164
Alsop, Bernard 160
Anderson, Benedict 130
Andrews, Alexander 4
Angel, Norman 6
Anglo-Dutch Wars 127, 146
second 39, 109, 126, 153
Anne, Queen 211
anonymity 118, 121, 127, 184, 193
pseudonymity 215, 220
Appadurai, Arjun 67, 79
Archer, Thomas 34
Arlington, Henry Bennet, Lord 49, 55
Arwaker, Edmund, poet 120
Astley, Thomas 170–72
Athenian Mercury, The (1691–) 117, 132
auctions 160
Aylmer, Brabazon 164
Bacon, Francis 15, 16, 51, 55–6, 58, 186, 188
Baker, George 192
Bakhtin, Mikhail 72
Baldwin, Richard, printer 159, 171
Balfour, John 219
Ball, Henry 121, 122
ballads 18–19, 26, 29, 39, 44
Bank of England 112
Barry, Edward 192
Bartholomew Fairing, A (1649) 76
Basset, Thomas 164
Bastwicke, John 4
Bates Francis, publisher 96
Bates, William 164
Battaile fought betweene Count Maurice of Nassaw ( 1600) 24
Battle of Nieuport (1600) 31
Beaumont, Ursula, correspondent 49
Beecher, Sir William 41
Bennet, H.S. 159
Berkeley, Bishop George 184
Bible and scripture 14, 58
Bibliotheca Universalis (1688) 162
Bills of Mortality 51, 94, 97, 132, 151, 162
Birch, Thomas 1
Bird, Christopher 20
Bishops’ Wars...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction: Newspapers, Forgeries, and Histories – Joad Raymond
- The Decorum of News – Fritz Levy
- “The Itch grown a Disease”: Manuscript Transmission of News in the Seventeenth Century – Ian Atherton
- Pamphlet Plays in the Civil War News Market: Genre, Politics, and “Context” – S.J. Wiseman
- Women in the Business of Revolutionary News: Elizabeth Alkin, “Parliament Joan,” and the Commonwealth Newsbook – Marcus Nevitt
- The Newspaper, Public Opinion, and the Public Sphere in the Seventeenth Century – Joad Raymond
- Timely Notices: The Uses of Advertising and its Relationship to News during the Late Seventeenth Century – Michael Harris
- Constructing the Frameworks of Desire: How Newspapers Sold Books in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries – Christine Ferdinand
- “Stung into action ...”: Medicine, Professionalism, and the News – G.S. Rousseau
- Tropes of Promotion and Wellbeing: Advertisement and the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Periodical Press – Hamish Mathison
- Abstracts
- Notes on Contributors
- Index