Print and power in France and England, 1500-1800 / / [edited by] David Adams, Adrian Armstrong

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154577303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-351-90889-8; 1-315-24605-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations, photographs
• Altri autori (Persone): AdamsDavid <1947->; ArmstrongAdrian
• Disciplina: 070.50944
• Soggetti: Publishers and publishing - Political aspects - France - History; Publishers and publishing - Political aspects - England - History; Books and reading - Political aspects - France - History; Books and reading - Political aspects - England - History; Literature and state - France - History; Literature and state - England - History; Power (Social sciences) - France - History; Power (Social sciences) - England - History; France Intellectual life; England Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cosmetic surgery on Gaul : the printed reception of Burgundian writing in France before 1550 / Adrian Armstrong -- Immanuel Tremellius' Latin Bible (1575-79) as a pillar of the Calvinist faith / Kenneth Austin -- 'It was not mine intent to prostitute my muse in English' : academic publication in early modern England / Sarah Knight -- 'Charity', social control and the history of English literary criticism / Lee Morrissey -- Spreading the word : illustrated books as political propaganda in seventeenth-century France / Alison Saunders -- Insinuation and instruction : public opinion in eighteenth-century 'letters to the printer'/ Ann C. Dean -- Police and political pamphleteering in pre-revolutionary France : the testimony of J.-P. Lenoir, lieutenant-général ; of police of Paris / Simon Burrows -- Fancy costume and political authority in the French Revolution / David Adams.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume examines the ways in which socially-privileged groups or those who identified with them, especially in France and England, exploited print media in attempts to maintain or reinforce their position over a period of some three centuries from around 1500 to 1800.