Not Dead Things : The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820.
Title:
Not Dead Things : The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820.
Author:
Harms, Roeland.
ISBN:
9789004253063
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (358 pages)
Series:
Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World ; v.30
Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Contents:
Not Dead Things -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Distribution and Dissemination of Popular Print -- Part One: Distribution Networks And The Popular Press -- 2. Print Peddling and Urban Culture in Renaissance Italy -- 3. Pedlars in the Netherlands from 1600 to 1850: Nuisance or Necessity? -- 4. 'Selling Prints for the Remondini': Italian Pedlars Travelling through Europe during the Eighteenth Century -- 5. 'Wandering with Pamphlets': The Infrastructure of News Circulation in Civil War England -- Part Two: The Iconography of Itinerant Distribution -- 6. The Cries of London from the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century: A Short History -- 7. Peddling in Texts and Images: The Dutch Visual Perspective -- 8. Costumes and Customs in Print: Travel, Ethnography, and the Representation of Street-Sellers in Early Modern Italy -- Part Three: The Dissemination Of News, Politics, Religion And Entertainment -- 9. The Dissemination of Quaker Pamphlets in the 1650s -- 10. International News and the Seventeenth-Century English Newspaper -- 11. Storehouses of News: The Meaning of Early Modern News Periodicals in Western Europe -- 12. 'All the World is Led and Rul'd by Opinion': The Relationship between Printed News and Public Opinion -- 13. The Development and Distribution of the First Educational Print Series in the Netherlands, 1800-1820 -- Index of Names, Places and Major Topics.
Abstract:
This collection explores the surprising ways by which cheap print moved across Europe, focussing on Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Looking at pedlars, commerce and communication, it presents a model of textual dissemination and the material and economic premises of European landscapes of print.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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