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Not dead things : the dissemination of popular print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820 / edited by Roeland Harms, Joad Raymond, Jeroen Salman.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Salman, Jeroen, author, editor.
Harms, Roeland, 1979- author, editor.
Raymond, Joad, author, editor.
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Library of the written word ; 30.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 22.
Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; volume 30
The handpress world ; volume 22
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Book industries and trade--Europe, Western--History.
Printing--Europe, Western--History.
Publishers and publishing--Europe, Western--History.
European newspapers--History.
Popular literature--Europe, Western--History.
Popular literature.
History.
European newspapers.
Publishers and publishing.
Printing.
Book industries and trade.
Western Europe.
Physical Description:
xvi, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Summary:
Cheap print moved across Europe in surprising ways, crossing unusual distances by unusual routes and by unusual means. Pedlars, news, and cheap print defy the conventional categories and models of distribution: we need to think about their extraordinary diversity, and about the means by which their unstable cultural images inflect distribution. Books were not dead things, and the examination of Italy, the Netherlands and Britain, three regions that contain instructive parallels and contrasts, reveals their unpredictable liveliness. This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Book jacket.
Contents:
Introduction : the distribution and dissemination of popular print / Roeland Harms, Joad Raymond and Jeroen Salman
Print peddling and urban culture in Renaissance Italy / Rosa Salzberg
Pedlars in the Netherlands from 1600 to 1850 : nuisance or necessity? / Jeroen Salman
'Selling prints for the Remondini' : Italian pedlars travelling through Europe during the eighteenth century / Alberto Milano
'Wandering with pamphlets' : the infrastructure of news circulation in civil war England / Jason Peacey
The cries of London from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century : a short history / Sean Shesgreen
Peddling in texts and images : the Dutch visual perspective / Karen Bowen
Costumes and customs in print : travel, ethnography, and the representation of street-sellers in early modern Italy / Melissa Calaresu
The dissemination of Quaker pamphlets in the 1650s / Kate Peters
International news and the seventeenth-century English newspaper / Joad Raymond
Storehouses of news : the meaning of early modern news periodicals in Western Europe / Joop W. Koopmans
'All the world is led and rul'd by opinion' : the relationship between printed news and public opinion / Roeland Harms
The development and distribution of the first educational print series in the Netherlands, 1800-1820 / Jo Thijssen.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
ISBN:
9789004253056
900425305X
OCLC:
848267472

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