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The marketplace of print : pamphlets and the public sphere in early modern England / Alexandra Halasz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 17.Publication details: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585000565
  • 9780585000565
  • 9780511581892
  • 0511581890
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Marketplace of print.DDC classification:
  • 070.5/0942 21
LOC classification:
  • Z326 .H335 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 06.21
  • 18.05
  • HI 1113
  • HI 1274
  • HI 1292
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Print matters -- 2. Figuring the marketplace of print -- 3. The patrimony of learning -- 4. Artisanal dispossession -- 5. The public sphere and the marketplace.
Summary: Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining print culture, particularly the historical entanglement between the technology of print and a developing capitalism. Attention to the controversies surrounding their circulation reveals that pamphlets became a focus for anxieties about print culture in general. Alexandra Halasz combines close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Deloney and John Taylor, among others, with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology and its specifically English organization as a monopoly. Taking account of the theoretical and historical issues surrounding textual property, authorship and publicity, The Marketplace of Print, first published in 1997, is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing problems of the relationship between the marketplace and the public sphere.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.

Print version record.

1. Print matters -- 2. Figuring the marketplace of print -- 3. The patrimony of learning -- 4. Artisanal dispossession -- 5. The public sphere and the marketplace.

Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining print culture, particularly the historical entanglement between the technology of print and a developing capitalism. Attention to the controversies surrounding their circulation reveals that pamphlets became a focus for anxieties about print culture in general. Alexandra Halasz combines close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Deloney and John Taylor, among others, with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology and its specifically English organization as a monopoly. Taking account of the theoretical and historical issues surrounding textual property, authorship and publicity, The Marketplace of Print, first published in 1997, is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing problems of the relationship between the marketplace and the public sphere.

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