Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain [Paperback]

A history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain.This is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, which traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book shows the coherence of the literary form, the diversity of genres and imaginative devices employed by pamphleteers. Individual chapters examine topics such as Elizabethan religious controversy, the book trade, the distribution of pamphlets, pamphleteering in the English Civil War, women and gender, and print in the Restoration.This is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, which traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book shows the coherence of the literary form, the diversity of genres and imaginative devices employed by pamphleteers. Individual chapters examine topics such as Elizabethan religious controversy, the book trade, the distribution of pamphlets, pamphleteering in the English Civil War, women and gender, and print in the Restoration.This unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book shows the coherence of the literary form and the diversity of genres and imaginative devices employed by pamphleteers. Individual chapters examine Elizabethan religious controversy, the book trade, the distribution of pamphlets, pamphleteering in the English Civil War, women and gender, and print in the Restoration.List of illustrations; List of figures; Preface; Notes on conventions; Prologue: changing experiences, 1588, 1642, 1688; 1. What is a pamphlet?; lƒN