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The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Volume One: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

Joad Raymond

Abstract

What did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its readers' lives? How was it produced and distributed? What were its relations to the wider world of print culture? How did it develop over time? These questions are central to this series of books devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the later seventeenth, governments, institutions, and individuals learned to use inexpensively-produced printed texts to inform, e ... More

Keywords: print culture, sixteenth century, British culture, Irish culture, printed text, readership, materiality, book trade, political history, cultural history

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780199287048
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199287048.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Joad Raymond, editor
Professor of English Literature, University of East Anglia

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

General Editor’s Introduction

Preface

List of Tables

List of Illustrations

Notes on Conventions

Notes on Contributors

Chronology

Chapter 1 Introduction

Joad Raymond

Part I Historical Contexts

Chapter 2 England and Wales

Michael J. Braddick

Chapter 3 Scotland

Hamish Mathison

Chapter 4 Ireland

Jane Ohlmeyer*

Chapter 5 Popular, Plebeian, Culture

Tim Harris

Chapter 6 The Development of the Book Trade in Britain

Joad Raymond

Chapter 7 Printing, Learning, and the Unlearned

Anna Bayman

Chapter 8 Popular Literacy and Society

Heidi Brayman Hackel

Chapter 9 Reading Strategies

Stephen B. Dobranski

Chapter 10 Oral Culture and Popular Print

Julie Crawford

Chapter 11 Manuscript Culture and Popular Print

Andrew McRae

Chapter 12 Libel

Alastair Bellany

Chapter 13 The Social Life of Books

William H. Sherman

Part II Some International Comparisons

Chapter 14 France and Spain

Roger Chartier Translated by Lynn S. Meskill

Chapter 15 Italy

Ottavia Niccoli Translated by Giulia Galastro

Chapter 16 The Netherlands

Margit Thøfner

Chapter 17 Germany

Alisha Rankin

Part III Themes

Chapter 18 Religion and Cheap Print

Peter Lake

Chapter 19 Rhetoric

David Colclough

Chapter 20 Political Argument

Markku Peltonen

Chapter 21 Images, Representation, and Counter-representation

Helen Pierce

Chapter 22 Women and Print

Sara Mendelson

Chapter 23 London

Mark Jenner

Chapter 24 Parliament and the Press

Thomas Cogswell

Chapter 25 War

Nicole Greenspan

Part IV Forms and Genres

Chapter 26 Ballads and Broadsides

Angela McShane*

Chapter 27 Romance

Lori Humphrey Newcomb

Chapter 28 News

Joad Raymond

Chapter 29 Science

Simon Schaffer

Chapter 30 Popular Medical Writing

Mary Fissell

Chapter 31 Almanacs and Prognostications

Lauren Kassell

Chapter 32 Popular History

Peter Burke

Chapter 33 Pamphlets

Jason Peacey

Chapter 34 Chapbooks

Lori Humphrey Newcomb

Chapter 35 Sermons, Primers, and Prayerbooks

Mary Morrissey

Chapter 36 Popular Didactic Literature

Natasha Glaisyer

Chapter 37 Playbooks

Zachary Lesser

Part V Case Studies

Chapter 38 1535

Tracey A. Sowerby

Chapter 39 1553

Cathy Shrank

Chapter 40 1588–1589

Jesse M. Lander

Chapter 41 1603

Matthew Woodcock

Chapter 42 1625

Thomas Cogswell

Chapter 43 1641

Jason McElligott

Chapter 44 1649

Martin Dzelzainis

Chapter 45 1660

Gerald MacLean

End Matter

Bibliography

Index