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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198130023

ISBN-139780198130024

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Number of Pages392 Pages

Publication NameInvention of the Newspaper : English Newsbooks 1641-1649

LanguageEnglish

SubjectJournalism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

AuthorJoad Raymond

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight27.5 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN96-031089

Reviews'In this immensely stimulating and diverse work, Raymond succeeds in keeping the different components of theory and description in balance. From the point of view of newspaper history the work is a terrific achievement. Raymond's material provides an important and stimulating contribution to many of the debates about the way English society worked in the mid-seventeenth century.'Michael Harris, The Library, 19.4, December 1997'Dr Raymond has carried out a diligent and ambitious examination of the earliest stages of the newsbook over a relatively short period ... Raymond has some interesting things to say about the readership and editors of the early newsbooks'Frances Henderson, Worcester College, Oxford, EHR June 1999'[review of Raymond alongside Sommerville/ The News Revolution, OUP NY] Although fundamental issues about readership, production methods and early attitudes to 'the news' may, because the necessary evidence does not survive in sufficient quantities, never be satisfactorily answered, studies such as these can nevertheless be helpful in pointing towards a fuller understanding of such problems.'Frances Henderson, Worcester College, Oxford, EHR June 1999, 'Dr Raymond has carried out a diligent and ambitious examination of theearliest stages of the newsbook over a relatively short period ... Raymond hassome interesting things to say about the readership and editors of the earlynewsbooks'Frances Henderson, Worcester College, Oxford, EHR June 1999, '[review of Raymond alongside Sommerville/ The News Revolution, OUP NY] Although fundamental issues about readership, production methods and early attitudes to 'the news' may, because the necessary evidence does not survive in sufficient quantities, never be satisfactorily answered, studiessuch as these can nevertheless be helpful in pointing towards a fuller understanding of such problems.'Frances Henderson, Worcester College, Oxford, EHR June 1999, Raymond has performed a public service by examining the transformation of the newsbook from 'a plain and non-controversial narrative of parliamentary proceedings into a bitter and aggressive instrument of literary and political faction.' We should, he urges, pay less attention to what contemporaries said about newsbooks and more to what they did with them. All seventeenth-century historians will benefit by reading this book., 'Dr Raymond has carried out a diligent and ambitious examination of the earliest stages of the newsbook over a relatively short period ... Raymond has some interesting things to say about the readership and editors of the early newsbooks'Frances Henderson, Worcester College, Oxford, EHR June 1999, "Very highly recommended...for graduate students and researchers."--Choice"...richly researched and documented..."--Studies in English Literature, 1500--1900, richly researched and documented ... offers a keen analysis and broad samplings of one of the main discursive forms., "Very highly recommended...for graduate students and researchers."-- Choice "...richly researched and documented..."-- Studies in English Literature, 1500--1900, Raymond's book is a superb account of the history and function of the English newsbook; it examines every aspect of the writing, printing, publishing, distributing and reading of the news in the 1640's ... Erudite and engaged, Raymond looks deeply at the particulars of newsbooks in the 1640's and beyond them to a range of significant issues ... What emerges is a striking portrait of that busy and often chaotic traffic between and among authors, copyists, printers, vendors and readers of the news., "Very highly recommended...for graduate students and researchers."--Choice "...richly researched and documented..."--Studies in English Literature, 1500--1900, 'In this immensely stimulating and diverse work, Raymond succeeds inkeeping the different components of theory and description in balance. From thepoint of view of newspaper history the work is a terrific achievement. Raymond'smaterial provides an important and stimulating contribution to many of thedebates about the way English society worked in the mid-seventeenth century.'Michael Harris, The Library, 19.4, December 1997, In this immensely stimulating and diverse work, Raymond succeeds in keeping the different components of theory and description in balance. From the point of view of newspaper history the work is a terrific achievement. Raymond's material provides an important and stimulating contribution to many of the debates about the way English society worked in the mid-seventeenth century., 'In this immensely stimulating and diverse work, Raymond succeeds in keeping the different components of theory and description in balance. From the point of view of newspaper history the work is a terrific achievement. Raymond's material provides an important and stimulating contribution tomany of the debates about the way English society worked in the mid-seventeenth century.'Michael Harris, The Library, 19.4, December 1997

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal072.09032

SynopsisThe first newsbooks, the direct predecessors of modern newspapers, appeared in 1641, yet the reasons for their appearance have never been fully understood. In this book, Raymond charts the development of the English newsbook from its origins to its gradual dominance in the information market. Using manuscript and printed sources, she places the newsbook's appearance a few months before the outbreak of civil war, where it took root in the flourishing political print culture of the 1640's., The first newspapers, or 'newsbooks', appeared in 1641, although the reasons for their appearance have never been fully understood. The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Raymond explores the newspaper's unique place in the flourishing political print culture of the 1640s, showing how newsbooks drew from and then reformed elements of literary culture, being both produced by a public hunger for news and, in turn, creating a market for it. The Inverntion of the Newspaper presents previously unexplored evidence concerning the distribution and readership of seventeenth-century news publications, which suggests that the early newsbooks were widely read and highly influential, and that - even today - they exert a considerable influence over the way in which seventeenth-century history is perceived. Charting the newsbook's development as a genre, its narrative forms, literary merits and influences, and its relationship to other vehicles of communication, printed and spoken, such as sermons, alamanacs, and play-pamphlets, Raymond presents a detailed exploration of the newsbook's gradual dominance of the market for information., The first newsbooks, the direct predecessors of the modern newspapers, appeared in 1641, although the reasons for their appearance have never been fully understood. The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to explore their political and literary influence; their narrative forms, style, and content; their production,distribution, and reception, and charting their gradual dominance of the market for information., The first newspapers, or 'newsbooks', appeared in 1641, although the reasons for their appearance have never been fully understood. The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Raymond explores thenewspaper's unique place in the flourishing political print culture of the 1640s, showing how newsbooks drew from and then reformed elements of literary culture, being both produced by a public hunger for news and,in turn, creating a market for it. The Inverntion of the Newspaper presents previously unexplored evidence concerning the distribution and readership of seventeenth-century news publications, which suggests that the early newsbooks were widely read and highly influential, and that - even today - they exert a considerable influence over the way in which seventeenth-century history is perceived. Charting the newsbook's development as a genre, its narrative forms, literarymerits and influences, and its relationship to other vehicles of communication, printed and spoken, such as sermons, alamanacs, and play-pamphlets, Raymond presents a detailed exploration of the newsbook'sgradual dominance of the market for information.

LC Classification NumberPN5115.R39 1996