The news revolution in England : cultural dynamics of daily information / C. John Sommerville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sommerville, C. John (Charles John), 1938- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English newspapers--Great Britain--history.

English newspapers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

News became a commodity with the birth of the commercial periodical. What constituted news, how it was presented and how people responded to it changed markedly. This work demonstrates how commercial news left its permanent imprint not only on what we think about, but how we think.

Contents:

Contents; One: The Strangeness of Periodical News; Two: Inventing Periodical Publication, 1620-40; Three: Organizing a News Industry, 1640-60; Four: Creating and Dividing the Audience, 1640-60; Five: Developing Despite Monopoly, 1660-80; Six: The Coffeehouse as a Periodical Medium, 1660-80; Seven: Periodicity and Press Freedom, 1670-90; Eight: Turning Culture into News: Science; Nine: Turning Culture into News: Literature; Ten: Turning News into Politics; Eleven: Turning Religion Upside Down; Twelve: The Club Image and Vicarious Community; Thirteen: Living in a Permanent Revolution; Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771499-4

1-280-53380-3

0-19-535549-0

OCLC:

252606122