Catalogue of Printed Books
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Books
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Books
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
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Author : Nicholas Rowe
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 1736
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Author : John Cotton
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Catechisms
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Author : Grolier Club
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Best books
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Author : Nicholas Rowe
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1830
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Author : John Rogers Bolles
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 38,4 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Connecticut
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Author : Harold M. Weber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 081315667X
The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.
Author : Peter Hampson Ditchfield
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 1910
Category : England
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Author : Cecile M. Jagodzinski
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813918396
Proposes that the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right and the core of individuality is connected in a complex way with the easy availability of printed books and the spread of the ability to read that emerged during the period. Looks at representations of reading and readers, especially women, in devotional books, conversion narratives, personal letters, drama, and the novel. Also explores how privacy became gendered in the early modern periodAnnotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR