Author : Joad Raymond
Release : 2003-03-06
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain by : Joad Raymond
Download or read book Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain written by Joad Raymond. This book was released on 2003-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book shows the coherence of the literary form and the diversity of genres and imaginative devices employed by pamphleteers. Individual chapters examine Elizabethan religious controversy, the book trade, the distribution of pamphlets, pamphleteering in the English Civil War, women and gender, and print in the Restoration.