Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

Abstract

List of illustrations List of figures Preface Notes on conventions Prologue: changing experiences, 1588, 1642, 1688 1. What is a pamphlet? 2. 'How loudely they cry': Marprelate, purity and paper bullets 3. 'Stitchers, Binders, Stationers, Hawkers': printing practices and the book trade 4. 'A mongrel race of Mercuries lately sprung up': the business of news, c. 1580-1660 5. 'From words to blowes': Scottish origins of the explosion of print, 1637-42 6. 'This bookish partiall formall fierce factious animositous age': printing revolutions, 1641-60 7. 'Speaking abroad': gender, female authorship and pamphleteering 8. 'A Bog of Plots, Sham-plots, Subordinations and Perjuries': pamphlets and polemic in the Restoration Epilogue Index of names and titles General index.