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The Invention of the Newspaper
Joad Raymond
其他書名
English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
出版
Clarendon Press
, 2005
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Renaissance
History / Social History
Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Social Science / Media Studies
ISBN
019928234X
9780199282340
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=y-7VaaKgiScC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The first weekly newspapers, or 'newsbooks', appeared in 1641. 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 few months before the outbreak of civil war. Raymond explores the newsbook's unique place in the flourishing political print culture of the 1640s, showing how it 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 news. The Invention of the Newspaper explores evidence for 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 influence 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, almanacs, and play-pamphlets, Raymond presents a detailed exploration of the newsbook's gradual dominance of the market for information.