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Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Author(s): Roeland Harms (Editor), Joad Raymond (Editor), Jeroen Salman (Editor)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: August 9, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 356 pages
- ISBN-10: 900425305X
- ISBN-13: 9789004253056
Book Description
Cheap print moved across Europe in surprising ways, crossing unusual distances by unusual routes and by unusual means. Pedlars, news, and cheap print defy the conventional categories and models of distribution: we need to think about their extraordinary diversity, and about the means by which their unstable cultural images inflect distribution. Books were not dead things, and the examination of Italy, the Netherlands and Britain, three regions that contain instructive parallels and contrasts, reveals their unpredictable liveliness. This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print.
Contributors include: Alberto Milano; Jason Peacey; Jeroen Salman; Jo Thijssen; Joad Raymond; Joop Koopmans; Karen Bowen; Kate Peters; Melissa Calaresu; Roeland Harms; Rosa Salzberg; Sean Shesgreen.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The papers are well documented and the book is nicely produced and adequately indexed. … One of the strengths of the volume is the more than sixty interesting illustrations included in several of the essays, many of which are not widely known.”
David Stoker, Aberystwyth University. In: Publishing History, Vol. 72 (2012), pp. 159-163.
David Stoker, Aberystwyth University. In: Publishing History, Vol. 72 (2012), pp. 159-163.
About the Author
Roeland Harms is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University in the NWO project Popularization and Media Strategies, 1700-1900 and Lecturer at Radboud University, Nijmegen. His PhD thesis Pamfletten en publieke opinie. Massamedia in de zeventiende eeuw was published in 2011.
Joad Raymond is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of various books on early-modern literature and book history, including
Milton’s Angels (2010).Jeroen Salman is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. Until 2010 he led the NWO-funded project
The Pedlar and the Dissemination of the Printed Word; currently he leads the NWO project Popularization and Media Strategies, 1700-1900.
