The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England

by Alexandra Halasz

Overview

Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining the print culture of the time, and especially the developing entanglement between technology and capitalism. Combining close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Deloney and others with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology, The Marketplace of Print is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing relationship between the marketplace and the public sphere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521582094
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/11/1997
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture , #17
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Print matters; 2. Figuring the marketplace of print; 3. The patrimony of learning; 4. Artisanal dispossession; 5. The public sphere and the marketplace; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"Those readers desiring a theoretical and largely economic approach to the production and dissemination of early modern pamphlets will be impressed...with both the content and dexterity of the analysis." Paul J. Voss, South Atlantic Review

"This is a valuable addition to existing studies of prose writing and the book trade..." Studies in English Literature

"This book will appeal most to literary 'new historicists' and 'cultural materialists' but can be read with profit by traditional historians." American Historical Review

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