The Marketplace of Print
The Marketplace of Print
Early modern pamphlets serve as an important vehicle for examining the print culture of the time, and especially the developing entanglement between technology and capitalism. Combining close readings of pamphlets by Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Deloney and others with a discussion of the history and deployment of print technology, The Marketplace of Print is both a work of historical recovery and a reflection on the ongoing 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
Reviews & endorsements
"Those readers desiring a theoretical and largely economic approach to the production and dissemination of early modern pamphlets will be impressed...with both the content and dexterity of the analysis." Paul J. Voss, South Atlantic Review
"This is a valuable addition to existing studies of prose writing and the book trade..." Studies in English Literature
"This book will appeal most to literary 'new historicists' and 'cultural materialists' but can be read with profit by traditional historians." American Historical Review
Product details
September 1997Hardback
9780521582094
256 pages
229 × 152 × 19 mm
0.55kg
Available
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.
