Ichabod Dawks
Author : Stanley Morison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
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Author : Stanley Morison
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
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Author : Stanley Morison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521163019
Dawks is the name of a family of booksellers and printers who practised their craft in London during the seventeenth century and later. The younger Thomas Dawks was honoured with the title of 'His Majesty's Printer for the British Language' in 1676. Ichabod Dawks, 'honest Ichabod' as Steel called him, and the best-known member of the family, published Dawks's NewsLetter on the evenings of Post Nights (i.e. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) from 1696 to 1716. For this periodical a special script type in imitation of handwriting was used, the matrices of which have recently been identified. Mr Morison's account of the Dawkses, based upon a family diary which he lately discovered, enlarges at several points our knowledge of their respective careers, and, in the case of Ichabod, demonstrates the character of his contribution to the progress of English journalism. Illustrated with type facsimiles, line blocks and nine pages of collotype facsimiles of newsletters.
Author : Gary Schneider
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874138757
This book is an extensive investigation of letters and letter writing across two centuries, focusing on the sociocultural function and meaning of epistolary writing - letters that were circulated, were intended to circulate, or were perceived to circulate within the culture of epistolarity in early modern England. The study examines how the letter functioned in a variety of social contexts, yet also assesses what the letter meant as idea to early modern letter writers, investigating letters in both manuscript and print contexts. It begins with an overview of the culture of epistolarity, examines the material components of letter exchange, investigates how emotion was persuasively textualized in the letter, considers the transmission of news and intelligence, and examines the publication of letters as propaganda and as collections of moral-didactic, personal, and state letters. Gary Schneider is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas-Pan American.
Author : John Nichols
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 1812
Category : Authors, English
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Author : John Ashton
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Charles E. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 1994-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0195359615
The Public Prints is the first comprehensive study of the role of the earliest American newspapers in the society and culture of the eighteenth century. In the hands of Charles E. Clark, American newspaper publishing becomes a branch of the English world of print in a story that begins in the bustling streets of late seventeenth-century London and moves to the provincial towns of England and across the Atlantic. While Clark's most detailed attention in America is to the three multi-newspaper towns of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, evidence from Williamsburg, Charleston, and Barbados also contributes to generalizations about the craft and business of eighteenth-century publishing. Stressing continuing trans-Atlantic connections as well as English origins, Clark argues that the newspapers were a force both for "anglicization" in their attempts to replicate English culture in America and for "Americanization" in creating a fuller awareness of the British-American experience across colonial boundaries. He suggests, finally, that the newspapers' greatest cultural role in provincial America was the creation of a community bound by the celebration of common values and attachments through the shared ritual of reading.
Author : John Considine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351870254
Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only placed English alongside the European vernaculars but also handled the languages of the new world. The essays in this volume discuss not only the internal history of lexicography but also its wider relationships with culture and society.
Author : Ashley Marshall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1783275456
A major history of the evolution of political journalism in the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period.
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Page : 418 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 1804
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Author : Lionel Thomas Berguer
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1823
Category : English essays
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