News in early modern Europe : : currents and connections / / edited by Simon F. Davies, Puck Fletcher.

• Superior document: Library of the Written Word, Volume 39
• TeilnehmendeR: Davies, Simon F.,; Fletcher, Puck,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; Volume 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and Tsunami in Dutch News Sources: The Functioning of Early Modern News Dissemination /; “Wee have Tidings out of Polonia”: English Corantos, News Networks, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth /; Transylvania in German Newspapers: Systems of Reporting and the News Stories of György II Rákóczi, 1657– 1658 /; News of the Sussex Dragon /; “Loyal Hind”, “The Prince of Thieves”: Crime Pamphlets and Royalist Propaganda in the 1650's /; Intensive Ephemera: The Catholick Gamesters and the Visual Culture of News in Restoration London /; Rumour, Newsletters, and the Pope’s Death in Early Modern Rome /; “A True Reporte”: News and the Neighbourhood in Early Modern Domestic Murder Texts /; Life After Death: Gender, Idealized Virtues, and the Obituary in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers /; “This Straunge Newes”: Plague Writing, Print Culture, and the Invention of News in Thomas Dekker’s The Wonderfull Yeare (1603) /; English News Plays of the Early 1620's: Thomas Middleton’s A Game at Chess and Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News /; “This is Attested Truth”: The Rhetoric of Truthfulness in Early Modern Broadside Ballads /; Bibliography of Secondary Works /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004276866
• ISSN: 1874-4834
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Simon F. Davies, Puck Fletcher.

News in Early Modern Europe – Currents and Connections , edited by Simon Davies and Puck Fletcher, presents significant new research on the production and dissemination of news in early modern Europe. Interdisciplinary in focus, and wide in geographical and chronological scope, the collection includes theoretical enquiries about the nature of news alongside deep archival case studies. Chapters in the volume cover such issues as: the functioning of international networks of news dissemination; the blurred boundaries between news reporting and other forms of writing, including entertainment, propaganda, and satire; the ways in which issues in social history, such as neighbourhood and gender, can be explored via study of news; and the cross-pollination of news and literature, in drama, ballads, and plague writing. Contributors include: Viviana Comensoli, Virginia Dillon, Andrew Hadfield, John M. Hunt, Anna Kalinowska, Joop W. Koopmans, Lena Liapi, Nick Moon, Adam Morton, Lena Steveker, Catherine Tremain, Emma Whipday.