The invention of the newspaper : English newsbooks, 1641-1649
Joad Raymond (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 1996
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], New York, 1996
History
xii, 379 pages ; 24 cm
9780198130024, 9780199282340, 0198130023, 019928234X
35001910
Introduction: What News?
1. A Narrative History of the English Newsbook, 1641-1649
2. The Outbreak of the English Newsbook
3. Newsbooks, Style, and Political Rhetoric
4. Paper Bullets: Newsbooks, Pamphlets, and Print Culture
5. Newsbooks, Their Distribution, and Their Readers
6. The Crisis of Eloquence: Newsbooks and Historiography
App. 'Diurnall Occurrences' from Manuscript to Print
A Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Magdalen College, Oxford