The Common Voice
Essays on Communication and Culture in Early Modern Britain
Seiten
2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72253-8 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72253-8 (ISBN)
In this volume Adam Fox brings together a collection of his essays on oral, scribal and printed communication across early modern Britain. These studies explore the relationship between spoken and written transmission, the processes and products of information gathering, and aspects of the popular press.
In this volume Adam Fox brings together a collection of his essays on aspects of oral, scribal and printed communication across early modern Britain. These studies explore the relationship between spoken and written transmission, the processes and products of information gathering, and the creation and consumption of street literature.
Focussing on various parts of the British Isles between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, they illuminate the nature of popular culture, the transition to a more literate society, and the engagement with ephemeral texts in 'the handpress world'.
In this volume Adam Fox brings together a collection of his essays on aspects of oral, scribal and printed communication across early modern Britain. These studies explore the relationship between spoken and written transmission, the processes and products of information gathering, and the creation and consumption of street literature.
Focussing on various parts of the British Isles between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, they illuminate the nature of popular culture, the transition to a more literate society, and the engagement with ephemeral texts in 'the handpress world'.
Adam Fox is Professor of Social History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700 (Oxford, 2000), and The Press and the People: Cheap Print and Society in Scotland, 1500–1785 (Oxford, 2020)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World ; 136 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 754 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-72253-X / 900472253X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-72253-8 / 9789004722538 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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