Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England
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Act III
Aristotle's Master Piece
athenian
Athenian Gazette
Athenian Mercury
Athenian Society
Author_Helen Berry
Category=DSBD
Category=DSK
Category=JBCC
Category=JBSF1
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
Christian Directory
City Mercury
Clandestine Marriage
Coffee House
Coffee House Literature
coffeehouse culture research
Complete English Tradesman
dudley
Dunton's Periodical
duntons
Dunton’s Periodical
early
Early English Periodical
Early Modem
Early Modem England
Early Modem Europe
Early Modem Men
early modern communication
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
gazette
gender discourse analysis
Ladies Issues
Late Stuart England
manhood
mass media gender norms
mercury
Middling Sort
modem
period
periodical
periodical literature studies
Peter Holland
print media history
Public Transcript
Rawlinson MS
social history England
William III
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754604969
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and wide-spread concern to the early modern reader. Berry's study provides the first full length analysis of John Dunton's Athenian Mercury (1691-97), an influential specimen of the coffee-house periodical genre, as well as the original question-and-answer publication which addressed both men's and women's issues in one journal. As the chapter headings in this book indicate, the topics addressed in the "agony column" of the Athenian Mercury-for example, the body, courtship, and sex-are of enduring interest across the centuries. Berry's study of this periodical provides new insights into the gendered ideas and debates that circulated among middling sorts in early modern England. An historical survey of the social effects of mass communication in the early modern period, this volume makes an important contribution to the ongoing study of how gendered ideas and values were communicated culturally, particularly beyond the milieu of elite groups such as the nobility and gentry. It argues that the mass media was from its infancy an important means of communicating powerful messages about gender norms, particularly among the middling sorts. The study will appeal not only to historians, women and gender studies scholars and literature scholars, but also to scholars of publishing history.
Helen Berry, University of Newcastle, UK
