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Consisting of twenty-eight chapters and numerous case studies the volume examines the history of the British and Irish press from its seventeenth-century beginnings up until the end of the eighteenth century. Five core chapters regard the Business of the Press (including advertising), Production and Distribution, Legal Constraints and Opportunities, Readers and Readerships, and the Emerging Identities and Communities of news writers and journalists. Other contributions focus on particular national realities such as those in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The contributions examine features relating to the production, transmission and reception of not just news publications but also the more specialised press such as periodical essays, women's periodicals, literary and review journalism, medical journals, and the criminal and religious press. As much early modern news was a transnational phenomenon the volume includes studies on European and trans-Atlantic networks as well as the role of translation in news transmission and output.
Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of Contributors
Introduction: Nicholas Brownlees
1. Business of the Press, 1640-1800: Nicholas Brownlees and David Finkelstein
Case Study 1: The Times: David Finkelstein
2. Production and Distribution: Helen S. Williams
3. Legal Contexts: Licensing, Censorship and Censure: Geoff Kemp and Jason McElligott
4. Readers and Readerships: Sophie H. Jones
Case Study 2: Readerships in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool: Sophie H. Jones
5. From News Writers to Journalists: An Emerging Profession?: Martin Conboy
Case Study 3: Daniel Defoe: Martin Conboy
6. From Manuscript to Print: The Multimedia News System: Rachael Scarborough King
Case Study 4: The Post Boy: Rachael Scarborough King
7. Newsbook to Newspaper: Changing Format, Layout and Illustration in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Periodical News: Yann Ryan
Case Study 5: Form, Layout, and the Digitised Newspaper: Irish News in 1649: Yann Ryan
8. The Evolving Language of the Press: Nicholas Brownlees and Birte Bös
Case Study 6: The Press and the Standard Accent: Massimo Sturiale
9. News, Debate and the Public Sphere: Pat Rogers
Case Study 7: Nathaniel Mist: Pat Rogers
10. Irish Periodical News, 1640-1800: Toby Barnard
Case Study 8: Ireland's First Newspaper: Mercurius Hibernicus and the Court of Claims 1663: Colum Kenny
Case Study 9: The Early Years of the Freeman's Journal, 1763-1806: Felix M. Larkin
11. The Scottish Press: Rhona Brown
Case Study 10: Reading the News in Scotland: The Jacobite Rising of 1715: Anette Hagan
12. The Market for the News in Scotland: Stephen W. Brown
Case Study 11: Newspaper Access and Distribution beyond the Scottish Capital: The Daily Practicalities: Iain Beavan
13. Scottish Press: News Transmission and Networks between Scotland and America in the Eighteenth Century: Mark G. Spencer
Case Study 12: 'Farewell to the Highlands': Or, How Broadsides Helped Create Images of the Scottish Diaspora: Marina Dossena
14. Wales and the News, 1640-1800: Sarah Ward Clavier
15. European Exchanges, Networks and Contexts 1640-1800: Brendan Dooley
16. Translation and the Press: Mairi McLaughlin and Nicholas Brownlees
Case Study 13: Gazette de Londres: Nicholas Brownlees
17. Women and the Eighteenth-Century Print Trade: Rebecca Shapiro
Case Study 14: Anne Fisher and the Print Trade: Rebecca Shapiro
18. The Medical Press, 1640-1800: Irma Taavitsainen
Case Study 15: Knowing the Parts of Woman: How Knowledge about Reproduction and Childbirth is Communicated in the Earliest Medical Press: Richard J. Whitt
19. Commenting and Reflecting on the News: Edward Taylor
Case Study 16: John Tutchin and George Ridpath's Observator (1702-12): Edward Taylor
20. Newspapers and War: Nicole Greenspan
Case Study 17: Mercurius Politicus and the Jamaica invasion (1655): Nicole Greenspan
21. Crime and Trial Reporting (1640-1800): Elisabetta Cecconi
Case Study 18: Reporting the Assassination of the Archbishop of St. Andrews (1679): Elisabetta Cecconi
22. Literary and Review Journalism: Hye-Joon Yoon
Case Study 19: The Scottish Enlightenment in The Monthly and The Critical: Hye-Joon Yoon
23. Press and Politics in the Seventeenth Century: Lena Liapi
Case Study 20: 'A Hellish Conspiracy': news reportage of the 1696 Assassination Plot: Lena Liapi
24. Religion and the Seventeenth-Century Press: Katie McKeogh and Sarah Ward Clavier
Case Study 21: Papistry and the News: Katie McKeogh and Sarah Ward Clavier
25. Runaway Announcements and Narratives of the Enslaved: John W. Cairns
26. The Press in Literature and Drama: Michael Palmer
Case Study 22: Ben Jonson
27. Informational Abundance and Material Absence in the Digitised Early Modern Press: The Case for Contextual Digitisation: Paul Gooding
Case Study 23: The London Gazette, or printing the news in a pandemic: Paul Gooding
Concluding Comments Timeline of Significant Events Bibliography Additional Notes
