A01=Jason Peacey
Author_Jason Peacey
basilike
book history methodologies
britanicus
cambridge
Cambridge University PhD
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early modern censorship
EHR
eikon
Eikon Basilike
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Henry Walker
HMC 6th Report
John Danvers
John Thurloe
London Newsbooks
marchamont
Marchamont Nedham
mercurius
Mercurius Aulicus
Mercurius Britanicus
Mercurius Elencticus
Mercurius Politicus
Mercurius Pragmaticus
Nathaniel Fiennes
nedham
pamphlet literature analysis
Perfect Diurnall
Peter Heylyn
phd
Polemical Literature
political communication history
politicus
print propaganda English civil wars
public sphere theory
seventeenth century print culture
Shr
Sir Arthur Hesilrige
Sir John Berkenhead
Sir John Danvers
university
Walter Frost
William Dugard
William Prynne
Product details
- ISBN 9780754606840
- Weight: 960g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The English civil wars radically altered many aspects of mid-seventeenth century life, simultaneously creating a period of intense uncertainty and unheralded opportunity. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the printing and publishing industry, which between 1640 and 1660 produced a vast number of tracts and pamphlets on a bewildering variety of subjects. Many of these where of a highly political nature, the publication of which would have been unthinkable just a few years before. Whilst scholars have long recognised the importance of these publications, and have studied in depth what was written in them, much less work has been done on why they were produced. In this book Dr Peacey first highlights the different dynamics at work in the conception, publication and distribution of polemical works, and then pulls the strands together to study them against the wider political context. In so doing he provides a more complete understanding of the relationship between political events and literary and intellectual prose in an era of unrest and upheaval. By incorporating into the political history of the period some of the approaches utilized by scholars of book history, this study reveals the heightened importance of print in both the lives of members of the political nation and the minds of the political elite in the civil wars and Interregnum. Furthermore, it demonstrates both the existence and prevalence of print propaganda with which politicians became associated, and traces the processes by which it came to be produced, the means of detecting its existence, the ways in which politicians involved themselves in its production, the uses to which it was put, and the relationships between politicians and propagandists.
Jason Peacey, University College London, UK
