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OverviewThe first weekly English newsbooks appeared in November 1641, on the eve of the civil war. Though they provoked animosity and fanned the flames of civil war, they have survived almost without interruption to the present day, transformed into the modern newspaper. The Invention of the Newspaper is the first detailed account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using a wealth of new evidence to show the causes of the first newsbooks, and their many and complex roles in the turbulent society in which they participated.Newsbooks were widely read and exerted considerable influence not only over immediate perceptions of news, but also over subsequent histories of the seventeenth-century, extending even to the present day. Using and synthesising approaches from literary criticism, history, and the 'socoiology of texts', The Invention of the Newspaper shows how newsbooks transformed print culture, fed the public hunger for news, and in turn created a market for news periodical. Charting the newsbook's development as a form and a commercial enterprise, its literary qualities, and its relationship to other means of communication, The Invention of the Newspaper shows the newsbook's gradual and irresistible dominance of the market for information. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joad Raymond (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, University of East Anglia)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780199282340ISBN 10: 019928234 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 07 July 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 Appendix: 'Diurnall Occurrences' from Manuscript to PrintReviewsRaymond has performed a public service by examining the transformation of the newsbook from 'a plain and non-controversial narrative of parliamentary proceedings into a bitter and aggressive instrument of literary and political faction.' We should, he urges, pay less attention to what contemporaries said about newsbooks and more to what they did with them.... All seventeenth-century historians will benefit by reading this book. --Christopher Hill, Literature and History<br> Richly researched and documented. --Studies in English Literature, 1500--1900<br> <br> Raymond has performed a public service by examining the transformation of the newsbook from 'a plain and non-controversial narrative of parliamentary proceedings into a bitter and aggressive instrument of literary and political faction.' We should, he urges, pay less attention to what contemporaries said about newsbooks and more to what they did with them.... All seventeenth-century historians will benefit by reading this book. --Christopher Hill, Literature and History<br> Richly researched and documented. --Studies in English Literature, 1500--1900<br> Author InformationBorn in Cardiff, Joad Raymond took his BA in English and History at UEA, then proceeded to the University of Oxford to do a D.Phil. Between 1993 and 1995 he held a reearch fellowship at Magdalen College before moving to a lectureship at the University of Aberdeen. He has been Senior Lecturer in English Literature, at UEA since 2000. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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