Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century
Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Christine Y. Ferdinand

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780198206521

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Behind these news networks was the entrepreneurial spirit of Benjamin Collins, a figure of national importance, who set up Salisbury's first bank, established newspapers in London and the provinces, wrote children's books with John Newbery, and whose publishing interests brought him into contact with the literary and commercial life of London. This fascinating study of the information networks of eighteenth-century provincial life will be interest to literary students and biographers as well as historians.

Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period
Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period

Author: Rachel Stenner

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-06

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3030880559

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Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted their agency through interventions in regional and national politics as well as their civic, commercial, and cultural contributions. Works printed in regional communities were a crucial part of developing narratives of local industrial, technological, and ideological progression. By moving away from understanding of print cultures outside of London as ‘provincial’, however, this book argues for a new understanding of ‘region’ as part of a network of places, emphasising opportunities for collaboration and creation that demonstrate the key role of regions within larger communities extending from the nation to the emerging sense of globality in this period. Through investigations of the men and women of the print trades outside of London, this collection casts new light on the strategies of self-representation evident in the work of regional print cultures, as well as their contributions to individual regional identities and national narratives.

Re-Constructing the Book
Re-Constructing the Book

Author: Maureen Bell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1351754106

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This title was first published in 2001. Literary critics, textual editors and bibliographers, and historians of publishing have hitherto tended to publish their research as if in separate fields of enquiry. The purpose of this volume is to bring together contributions from these fields in a dialogue rooted in the transmission of texts. Arranged chronologically, so as to allow the use of individual sections relevant to period literature courses, the book offers students and teachers a set of essays designed to reflect these approaches and to signal their potential for fruitful integration. Some of the essays answer the demand "Show me what literary critics (or textual editor; or book historians) do and how they do it", and stand as examples of the different concerns, methodologies and strategies employed. Others draw attention to the potential of the approaches in combination.

The History of the Provincial Press in England
The History of the Provincial Press in England

Author: Rachel Matthews

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-05-18

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1441162305

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"Comprehensive history of the development of the regional press in England from its origins to today, also examining the context of the work of journalists"--

Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century
Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century

Author: Siv Gøril Brandtzæg

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9004362878

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Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gained respect and influence, how news functioned as a business, and also how the historiography of news can be conducted with the resources available to scholars today. Travelling Chronicles offers a timely analysis of early news, at a moment when historical newspaper archives are being widely digitalised and as the truth value of news in our own time undergoes intense scrutiny.

So Great a Prince
So Great a Prince

Author: Lauren Johnson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1681775913

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England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers hope of renewal and reconciliation after the corruption and repression of the last years of his father's reign.The kingdom Henry inherits is not the familiar Tudor England of Protestantism and playwrights. It is still more than two decades away from the English Reformation, and ancient traditions persist: boy bishops, pilgrimages, Corpus Christi pageants, the jewel-decked shrine at Canterbury. So Great a Prince offers a fascinating portrait of a country at a crossroads between two powerful monarchs and between the worlds of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Historian Lauren Johnson tells the story of 1509 not just from the perspective of the young king and his court, but from the point of view of merchants, ploughmen, apprentices, laundresses, and foreign workers. She looks at these early Tudor lives through the rhythms of annual rituals, juxtaposing political events in Westminster and the palaces of southeast England with the religious, agrarian, and social events that punctuated the lives of the people of young Henry VIII's England.