Print and power in France and England, 1500-1800

Folger bibliographic ID: 342149
Folger call number: Z305 .P69 2006
Folger holdings ID: 493336
Accession Number: 269204

This volume examines the ways in which socially-privileged groups or those who identified with them, especially in France and England, exploited print media in attempts to maintain or reinforce their position over a period of some three centuries from around 1500 to 1800

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-149) and index

Contents

Cosmetic surgery on Gaul : the printed reception of Burgundian writing in France before 1550 / Adrian Armstrong -- Immanuel Tremellius' Latin Bible (1575-79) as a pillar of the Calvinist faith / Kenneth Austin -- 'It was not mine intent to prostitute my muse in English' : academic publication in early modern England / Sarah Knight -- 'Charity', social control and the history of English literary criticism / Lee Morrissey -- Spreading the word : illustrated books as political propaganda in seventeenth-century France / Alison Saunders -- Insinuation and instruction : public opinion in eighteenth-century 'letters to the printer'/ Ann C. Dean -- Police and political pamphleteering in pre-revolutionary France : the testimony of J.-P. Lenoir, lieutenant-général of police of Paris / Simon Burrows -- Fancy costume and political authority in the French Revolution / David Adams

Extended title: Print and power in France and England, 1500-1800 / [edited by] David Adams, Adrian Armstrong

Publishers and publishing Books and reading Literature and state Power (Social sciences) France England

editor: Adams, David, 1947-
editor: Armstrong, Adrian