Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

by Joad Raymond

Book Overview

By the end of the seventeenth century the most effective means of persuasion and communication was the pamphlet, which created influential moral and political communities of readers, and thus formed a 'public sphere' of popular, political opinion. This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521028779
• ISBN13: 9780521028776
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"