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

Alexandra Halasz (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)

The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
11 September 1997
Pages
256
ISBN
9780521582094

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

Alexandra Halasz (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)

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 organisation as a monopoly. Taking account of the theoretical and historical issues surrounding textual property, authorship and publicity, The Marketplace of Print 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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