Full Description
International tragedies, national disgraces, and local dangers: reporting can magnify trauma. But how can we gain a deeper analytical understanding of episodes seemingly too immediate for detached observation by our sources or even, perhaps, by ourselves? This volume brings together a broad range of current research in Europe and abroad, regarding an issue of crucial importance for understanding past cultures and our own.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Early Modern Origins
Section 1: The Force of News
1 1600: A Year to Remember
Sara Mansutti, Wouter Kreuze, Carlotta Paltrinieri, Lorenzo Allori, Davide Boerio and Brendan Dooley
2 Information Shadows
Meteorological Disaster and Misinformation across Europe in the Wake of the 1625 Raid on Cadiz
Thom Pritchard
Section 2: Natural Disasters
3 Troubling News Travels Fast
The Sannio Earthquake Ripples through the Spanish Monarchy
Alessandro Tuccillo
4 Narratives and Media Ecology of the "Revolutions" of Naples of 1647-48
Davide Boerio and Luca Marangolo
5 St Filippo Neri in the Spanish Press
Earthquakes, Veneration and Wondrous Events
Milena Viceconte
6 'Yet Once More I Shake Not Only the Earth'
News of Earthquakes in Early Modern England
Lena Liapi
Section 3: Rebellion and War
7 Reading the 1641 Irish Rebellion
Nehemiah Wallington and the Cultural Construction of Violence
Eamon Darcy
8 The Power of the Pen
Huguenot Gazettes in the Pursuit of Information during the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century
Panagiotis Georgakakis
Part 2: Eighteenth-Century Developments
Section 4: Circulation and Reception
9 Tadhg Ó Neachtain
A Case-Study in Gaelic Media Reception in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
Liam Mac Mathúna
10 MURDER! He Wrote
The News as Reported by James Ryan in his Diary (1787-1809)
Bláithín Hurley
11 News about Justice
Telling Crime Stories in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Pasquale Palmieri
12 The Imperial Crisis in the News, c.1760-1780
News and Newspapers as a Source for Writing Transnational Histories
Joel Herman
Part 3: The Media and the Masses
Section 5: The Politics of News
13 The Wars at Home
Victorian Imperial Sieges and the Conscription of Public Opinion
Brian Wallace
14 The Czechoslovak Media Landscape in 1938
A Lack of Media-Induced Anxiety, and the Origins of the 'Munich Betrayal'
Johana Kłusek
15 All Quiet on the Domestic Front?
Dealing with Anxiety in Late Socialist Czechoslovak Media
Ondřej Daniel and Jakub Machek
16 The Media Portrayal of Radical Irish Republicans
An Anthropological Perspective
Aodhán Morris
Section 6: Trouble in the Headlines
17 Hyde and the Media—Friend or Foe?
Máire Nic an Bhaird
18 The German Air Campaign against Britain, 1915-18, and British Cartoon Responses
Chris Williams
19 'Every Night You Take Up the Paper You Find Someone Has Either Been Killed or Severely Injured'
The Irish Press's Portrayal of Road Traffic Accidents in the Early Motoring Era
Leanne Blaney
20 Making a Splash
A Brief History of Headlines
Daniel Carey
Part 4: Beyond the News
21 Challenges beyond the News
Events, Neglected Voices and Collective Consciousness
Jane L. Chapman
Index
