News in Early Modern Europe

Currents and Connections
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27685-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

News in Early Modern Europe presents new research on the nature, production, and dissemination of a variety of forms of news writing from across Europe during the early modern period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Simon

Fletcher, Puck

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures

List of contributors

Introduction
Simon F. Davies and Puck Fletcher

1. The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and Tsunami in Dutch News Sources: The Functioning of Early Modern News Dissemination
Joop W. Koopmans

2. “Wee have tidings out of Polonia”: English Corantos, News Networks, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Anna Kalinowska

3. Transylvania in German Newspapers: Systems of Reporting and the News Stories of György II Rákóczi, 1657-58
Virginia Dillon

4. News of the Sussex Dragon
Andrew Hadfield

5. “Loyal Hind”, “The Prince of Thieves”: Crime Pamphlets and Royalist Propaganda in the 1650s
Lena Liapi

6. Intensive Ephemera: The Catholick Gamesters and the Visual Culture of News in Restoration London
Adam Morton

7. Rumour, Newsletters, and the Pope’s Death in Early Modern Rome
John M. Hunt

8. “A True Reporte”: News and the Neighbourhood in Early Modern Domestic Murder Texts
Emma Whipday

9. Life After Death: Gender, Idealized Virtues, and the Obituary in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers
Catherine Tremain

10. “This straunge newes”: Plague Writing, Print Culture, and the Invention of News in Thomas Dekker’s The Wonderful yeare (1603)
Viviana Comensoli

11. English News Plays of the Early 1620s: Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess and Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News
Lena Steveker

12. “This is Attested truth”: The Rhetoric of Truthfulness in Early Modern Broadside Ballads
Nick Moon

Bibliography of secondary works

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Simon F. Davies, PhD (2013), University of Sussex, works on book history and the literature of witchcraft. He has published on witchcraft and the history of reading, and is currently working on an edition of an unpublished seventeenth-century witchcraft treatise.

Puck Fletcher is an AHRC funded DPhil candidate in English at the University of Sussex. They have published articles on John Milton and Isaac Newton, and were the executive editor of the website Darkness Visible (Christ’s College, Cambridge, 2008).