The Marketplace of Print
The Marketplace of Print
Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining print culture, particularly the historical entanglement between the technology of print and a developing capitalism. Attention to the controversies surrounding their circulation reveals that pamphlets became a focus for anxieties about print culture in general. Alexandra Halasz combines close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Gabriel Harvey, Thomas Deloney and John Taylor, among others, with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology and its specifically English organization as a monopoly. Taking account of the theoretical and historical issues surrounding textual property, authorship and publicity, The Marketplace of Print, first published in 1997, is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing problems of the relationship between the marketplace and the public sphere.
- Rethinks ideas about the media, past and present, especially the relationship between print, the marketplace and the public sphere
- Close study of prominent early modern pamphlets and their importance in their own time
- Provides insight into the developing conflict between technology and capitalism
Product details
September 1997Hardback
9780521582094
256 pages
229 × 152 × 19 mm
0.55kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Print matters
- 2. Figuring the marketplace of print
- 3. The patrimony of learning
- 4. Artisanal dispossession
- 5. The public sphere and the marketplace
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
