Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
N. H. Keeble ◽  
Tessa Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
The Press ◽  
Dynamic Shape

Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is that of multiple agencies as their texts were transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognize. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous publication resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and paratexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor. Taking the period between the lapse of the Licensing Act and the dawn of industrial press production, this introduction, focusing on Richard Baxter and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as the ’bookends’ of the collection, reviews the varieties of transformation to which printed texts were subject, and the kinds of transformation they sought to effect, with reference to each of the ensuing essays.

The Press and the People

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Fox
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
The People ◽  
The Press ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Single Sheet ◽  
Popular Texts ◽  
Cheap Print ◽  
British Culture

This is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation’s first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The book demonstrates just how much more of this reading matter was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular literature in early modern Scotland and its contribution to British culture more widely.

scholarly journals Cromwell's Edinburgh Press and the Development of Print Culture in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Scott Spurlock
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Printing Industry ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
The Press ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Printed Word

Alasdair Mann, the noted scholar of book culture in early modern Scotland, has suggested that a significant change had occurred in Scotland's relationship with the printed word by the late seventeenth century. This study sets out to explain how the interregnum served as a ‘watershed’ during which a consumer demand was created for popular print and how this in turn necessitated a significant increase in the production and distribution of printed material. Beginning with the sale of the press and patent of Evan Tyler to the London Stationers’ Company in 1647, the article charts the key factors that transformed Scotland's printing industry from the production of official declarations and works for foreign markets to the production of polemical texts for a Scottish audience. These developments also witnessed publication of the first serial news journal and the growth of a competitive market for up-to-date printed news. More than just an anomaly that flourished during a decade of occupation, these fundamental changes altered Scotland by introducing the large-scale consumption of chapbooks and printed ephemera, thereby initiating the nation's enduring print culture.

scholarly journals A Woodblock’s Career

Nuncius ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-63
Author(s):  
Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Botanical Knowledge ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of

Abstract The Antwerp publishing house Officina Plantiniana was the birthplace of many important early modern botanical treatises. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the masters of the press commissioned approximately 4,000 botanical woodblocks to print illustrations for the publications of the three Renaissance botanists – Rembert Dodoens, Carolus Clusius, and Matthias Lobelius. The woodcuts became one of the bases of early modern botanical visual culture, generating and transmitting the understanding of plants throughout the Low Countries and the rest of Europe. The physical blocks, which are preserved at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, thus offer a material perspective into the development of early modern botany. By examining the 108 woodblocks made for Dodoens’ small herbal, the Florum (1568), and the printing history of a selected few, this article shows the ways in which the use of these woodblocks impacted visual botanical knowledge transfer in the early modern period.

Early modern Ireland

1977 ◽  
Vol 20 (79) ◽  
pp. 272-285
Author(s):  
Donal F. Cregan
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of

The publication of the first volume of A new history of Ireland to be issued from the press (volume iii of a set of nine volumes) is an event of the utmost significance in Irish historiography. It is the first-fruit of an ambitious proposal originally given an airing by Professor T. W. Moody in his presidential address to the Irish Historical Society in December 1962 and since pursued by him, through protracted discussions and negotiations, with rare tenacity, skill and devotion. In a longer perspective it is the culmination of forty years of sustained historical endeavour, which in its beginnings saw the foundation in 1936 of the Ulster Society for lrish Historical Studies and of the Irish Historical Society, and the first publication in 1938 of Irish Historical Studies, the journal sponsored by both societies, of which Professor Moody has since been joint editor.

scholarly journals Ressenya a Henry Ettinghausen, How the Press Began. The Pre-Periodical Printed News in Early Modern Europe, A Coruña, SIELAE – Facultad de Filología, Universidade da Coruña, 2015,

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
Ricard Expósito i Amagat
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
The Press ◽  
Modern Europe

Ressenya a Henry Ettinghausen, How the Press Began. The Pre-Periodical Printed News in Early Modern Europe, A Coruña, SIELAE – Facultad de Filología, Universidade da Coruña, 2015, 302 pp., 80 il·ls., ISBN: 978-84-608-3423-6 Review to  Henry Ettinghausen, How the Press Began. The Pre-Periodical Printed News in Early Modern Europe, A Coruña, SIELAE – Facultad de Filología, Universidade da Coruña, 2015, 302 pp., 80 il·ls., ISBN: 978-84-608-3423-6

Debauched, Desperate, Deranged

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. Conley
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Early Modern Women ◽  
External Threats ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Family ◽  
First World

Contemporary studies have concluded that women are far less likely to kill than men and that when women do kill, they do so within the family. This book examines the evolution of this pattern in homicide trials in London from the late seventeenth century until just before the First World War. Obviously, the number of prosecutions for homicide is not the same as the number of homicides committed. Which deaths were considered homicides and in what circumstances women were culpable illustrate profound changes in the prevailing assumptions about women. The outcomes of trials and the portrayals of these women in the press illuminate changes in perceptions of women’s status and their physical and mental limitations. This book breaks new ground in that the existing studies of gender and homicide have been narrowly focused chronologically. Though the scholarship for the early modern period is rich, the divide between early modern and modern is rarely crossed. A longer time frame makes it possible to discern which trends are brief anomalies and which represent significant change or continuity. Rather than a simple matter of patriarchal control, gender expectations fluctuated widely over time. Early modern women who killed were wicked, eighteenth-century female killers had succumbed to passion, nineteenth-century women were vulnerable to external threats to their roles as wives and mothers, while early twentieth-century women were most often seen as victims of their own biological shortcomings.

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