Manuscript circulation and the invention of politics in early Stuart England / Noah Millstone, University of Bristol.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millstone, Noah, 1982- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history.

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Political culture.

Pamphlets--Publishing--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Pamphlets.

English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1649.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Manuscript Circulation & the Invention of Politics in Early Stuart England

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the decades before the Civil War, English readers confronted an extensive and influential pamphlet literature. This literature addressed contemporary events in scathingly critical terms, was produced in enormous quantities and was devoured by the curious. Despite widespread contemporary interest and an enormous number of surviving copies, this literature has remained almost entirely unknown to scholars because it was circulated in handwriting rather than printed with movable type. Drawing from book history, the sociology of knowledge and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone provides the first systematic account of the production, circulation and reception of these manuscript pamphlets. By placing them in the context of social change, state formation, and the emergence of 'politic' expertise, Millstone uses the pamphlets to resolve one of the central problems of early Stuart history: how and why did the men and women of early seventeenth-century England come to see their world as political?

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Conditions of Production. 2. The social life of handwriting; 3. Tuning the instrument; 4. Performance and Parliament; Part II. Subjects and Subjectivity. 5. Bristol's revenge; 6. Historians of the present; Part III. The Secret History of the State. 7. The antiquary and the malcontent; 8. The drift of the personal rule; 9. The ill-affected; 10. Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-56420-7

1-316-56624-2

1-316-56658-7

1-316-56692-7

1-316-56828-8

1-316-56862-8

1-316-56726-5

1-316-34311-1