Buy this book on-line David Adams and Adrian Armstrong (Edited by) : Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800Ashgate Publishing Limited, England, 2006 ISBN 0754655911
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AP5 - A hardcover book in fair condition that has bumped corners and some dents, some chipping and wear on the cover edges, sides and corners, scattered writing, underlining and marking, some scattered stains, light discoloration and shelf wear with no dust jacket. 9.5"x6.25", 157 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. What was the relationship between power and the public sphere in early modern society? How did the printed media inform this relationship? Contributors to this volume address those questions by examining the interaction of print and power in France and England during the 'hand-press period'. Four interconnected and overlapping themes emerge from these studies, showing the essential historical and contextual considerations shaping the strategies both of power and of those who challenged it via the written word during this period. The first is reading and control, which examines the relationship between institutional power and readers, either as individuals or as a group. A second is propaganda on behalf of institutional power, and the ways in which such writings engage with the rhetorics of power and their reception. The Academy constitutes a third theme, in which contributors explore the economic and political implications of publishing in the context of intellectual elites. The last theme is clientism and faction, which examines the competing political discourses and pressures which influenced widely differing forms of publication. From these articles there emerges a global view of the relationship between print and power, which takes the debate beyond the narrowly theoretical to address fundamental questions of how print sought to challenge, or reinforce, existing power-structures, both from within and from without.. Book Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of David Adams and Adrian Armstrong (Edited by) : Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, first editions, incunabula, rare books and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |