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Paper bullets : print and kingship under Charles II / / Harold Weber



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Autore: Weber Harold Visualizza persona
Titolo: Paper bullets : print and kingship under Charles II / / Harold Weber Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1996
©1996
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
Disciplina: 941.06/6
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685 Historiography
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority -- especially the monarchy -- and the printed word.Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped brin
Titolo autorizzato: Paper bullets  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8131-3044-1
0-8131-5667-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460407203321
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