Pamphleteering
Polemic, Print, and the Infrastructure of Political Agency
Series: Elements in Publishing and Book Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 2 October 2025
- ISBN 9781009550352
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages112 pages
- Size 178x127x6 mm
- Weight 113 g
- Language English 650
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Short description:
This Element proposes a definition of pamphleteering that emphasizes its social uses rather than its literary form or political content.
MoreLong description:
The 'Pamphlet Wars' of the seventeenth century, the activist texts of the Labour Movement, and the recent campaigns for climate justice have all drawn on the affordances of pamphleteering to advance their cause: pamphlets circulate across geographical boundaries and social divides, they attract a readership that is usually excluded from the classical public sphere, they can be produced at low cost, and they often provide anonymity to their authors. This Element provides a brief history of short-form polemical literature from the Reformation to the present. It argues that popular dissent and popular political agency must be understood in light of the material and, more recently, digital history of polemical literature. It makes the case that current online polemic is best understood as a late infrastructural transformation of classical and modern pamphleteering. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Infrastructure: From Antiquity to the Printing Press; 3. 'Ordinary Readers': Revolutionary Pamphleteering; 4. Beneath the Public Sphere: Radical Pamphleteering 1898-1950; 5. The Civil Rights Movement: A Pamphletary Event; 6. Pamphleteering After Paper.
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