Handwritten Newspapers : An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods
by
Droste, Heiko
Title
:
Handwritten Newspapers : An Alternative Medium during the Early Modern and Modern Periods
Author
:
Droste, Heiko
ISBN
:
sfh.26
9789518581560
Personal Author
:
Droste, Heiko
Publication Information
:
Helsinki Finnish Literature Society / SKS 2019
Physical Description
:
1 electronic resource (229 p.)
Abstract
:
"This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change across the different forms and functions of the textual materials. In the 16th century, handwritten newspapers evolved as a news medium reporting history in the making. It was both a rather expensive public commodity and a gift exchanged in social relationships. Both functions appealed to public elites and their news consumption for about 300 years. From the late 18th century onwards, changing notions of publicness as well as the social needs of private or even secluded groups re-defined the medium. Handwritten newspapers turned more and more into an internal or even clandestine medium of communication. As such, it has served as a means to create social cohesion, political debate, and religious education for nonelite groups until the 20th century. Despite these changes, continuities can be observed both in the material layout of handwritten newspapers and the practices of distribution."
Subject Term
:
Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Designed for differentiated learning
Reportage & collected journalism
History
Added Author
:
Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
Droste, Heiko
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 2198675-1001 | XX(2198675.1) | DOAB E-Books |