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The invention of the newspaper : English newsbooks, 1641-1649 / Joad Raymond.
- Title
- The invention of the newspaper : English newsbooks, 1641-1649 / Joad Raymond.
- Author
- Raymond, Joad.
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN5115 .R39 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xx, 379 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Previous ed.: Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-365) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : what news? -- 1. A narrative history of the English newsbook, 1641-1649 -- 2. The outbreak of the English newsbook -- 3. Newsbooks, style, and political rhetoric -- 4. Paper bullets : newsbooks, pamphlets, and print culture -- 5. Newsbooks, their distribution, and their readers -- 6. The crisis of eloquence : newsbooks and historiography -- App. 'Diurnall occurrences' from Manuscript to print.
- ISBN
- 019928234X (pbk.)
- 0198130023 (hbk.)
- 9780199282340 (pbk.)
- 9780198130024 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 57750143
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library