Travelling chronicles : news and newspapers from the early modern period to the eighteenth century / edited by Siv Goril Brandtzæg, Paul Goring, Christine Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril, editor, author.

Goring, Paul, 1970- editor, author.

Watson, Christine (Slavic literature scholar), editor, author.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World ; 66.

Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European newspapers--History.

European newspapers.

Journalism--Europe--History--17th century.

Journalism.

Journalism--Europe--History--18th century.

Newspaper publishing--Europe--History--17th century.

Newspaper publishing.

Newspaper publishing--Europe--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

388 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

"Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gained respect and influence, how news functioned as a business, and also how the historiography of news can be conducted with the resources available to scholars today. Travelling Chronicles offers a timely analysis of early news, at a moment when historical newspaper archives are being widely digitalised and as the truth value of news in our own time undergoes intense scrutiny"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A network of networks : spreading the news in an expanding world of information / Paul Goring

Truth and trust and the eighteenth-century Anglophone newspaper / William B. Warner

Searching for Dr. Johnson : the digitisation of the Burney Newspaper Collection / Andrew Prescott

Spreading the news within the clerical profession : newspapers and the church in the north of England, 1660-1760 / Daniel Reed

All the news that's fit to write : the eighteenth-century manuscript newsletter / Rachael Scarborough King

Christoff Koch (1637-1711) : Sweden's man in Moscow / Heiko Droste and Ingrid Maier

What the Posol'skii prikaz really knew : intelligencers, secret agents and their reports / Daniel C. Waugh

News of travels, travelling news : the mediation of travel and exploration in the Gazette de France and the Journal de l'Empire / Marius Warholm Haugen

Foreign news reporting in transition : James Perry and the French Constitution ceremony / Johanne Kristiansen

Diplomatic channels and Chinese whispers : reception and transformation of the Moscow uprising of 1648 in Sweden and France / Malte Griesse

From piety to profit : the development of newspaper advertising in the Dutch Golden Age / Arthur der Weduwen

Mercury as merchant : the advertisement of novels in eighteenth-century provincial English newspapers / Siv Goril Brandtzag

Establishing a state-controlled network for news trading in the Swedish Baltic provinces in the late seventeenth century : causes and consequences / Kaarel Vanamolder

News versus opinion : the state, the press, and the northern enlightenment / Ellen Krefting

Was there an enlightenment culture of news? / Andrew Pettegree.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Travelling chronicles

ISBN:

9789004340404

9004340408

OCLC:

1041581841