The Invention of the Newspaper
English Newsbooks 1641-1649
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 July 2005
- ISBN 9780199282340
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 215x138x22 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English 70
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Short description:
First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, The Invention of the Newspaper describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper. It offers the first detailed account of the causes of these first newspapers, and describes the turbulent literary and political world in which they participated.
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The first weekly English newsbooks appeared in November 1641, on the eve of the civil war. Though they provoked animosity and fanned the flames of civil war, they have survived almost without interruption to the present day, transformed into the modern newspaper. The Invention of the Newspaper is the first detailed account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using a wealth of new evidence to show the causes of the first newsbooks, and their many and complex roles in the turbulent society in which they participated.
Newsbooks were widely read and exerted considerable influence not only over immediate perceptions of news, but also over subsequent histories of the seventeenth-century, extending even to the present day. Using and synthesising approaches from literary criticism, history, and the 'socoiology of texts', The Invention of the Newspaper shows how newsbooks transformed print culture, fed the public hunger for news, and in turn created a market for news periodical. Charting the newsbook's development as a form and a commercial enterprise, its literary qualities, and its relationship to other means of communication, The Invention of the Newspaper shows the newsbook's gradual and irresistible dominance of the market for information.
Review from previous edition In this immensely stimulating and diverse work, Raymond succeeds in keeping the different components of theory and description in balance. From the point of view of newspaper history the work is a terrific achievement. Raymond's material provides an important and stimulating contribution to many of the debates about the way English society worked in the mid-seventeenth century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: What News?
A Narrative History of the English Newsbook, 1641-1649
The Outbreak of the English Newsbook
Newsbooks, Style, and Political Rhetoric
Paper Bullets: Newsbooks, Pamphlets, and Print Culture
Newsbooks, their Distribution, and their Readers
The Crisis of Eloquence: Newsbooks and Historiography
Appendix: 'Diurnall Occurrences' from Manuscript to Print
