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Weber Harold |
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Titolo |
Paper bullets : print and kingship under Charles II / / Harold Weber |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1996 |
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©1996 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-3044-1 |
0-8131-5667-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Journalism - Political aspects - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Printing - Political aspects - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Censorship - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Monarchy - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
Kings and rulers in literature |
Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685 Historiography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Representations of the King; 1. Restoration and Escape: The Incognito King and Providential History; 2. The Monarch's Sacred Body: The King's Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing; 3. The Monarch's Profane Body: ""His scepter and his prick are of a length""; Part Two: The Language of Censorship; 4. ""The feminine part of every rebellion"": The Public, Royal Power, and the Mysteries of Printing; 5. ""The very Oracles of the Vulgar"": Stephen College and the Author on Trial |
ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an |
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