Paper bullets : print and kingship under Charles II / / Harold Weber
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| Autore: |
Weber Harold
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| Titolo: |
Paper bullets : print and kingship under Charles II / / Harold Weber
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8131-3044-1 |
| 0-8131-5667-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787378303321 |
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