Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles II - Couverture rigide

Weber, Harold M.

 
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Synopsis

" The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority-especially the monarchy-and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was

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À propos de l?auteur

Harold M. Weber is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama.

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