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- catalog abstract "The English Revolution was a revolution in reading, with over 22,000 pamphlets exploding from the presses between 1640 and 1661. What this phenomenon meant to the political life of the nation is the subject of Sharon Achinstein's book. Considering a wide range of writers, from John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Lilburne, John Cleveland, and William Prynne to a host of anonymous scribblers of every political stripe, Achinstein shows how the unprecedented outpouring of opinion in mid-seventeenth-century England created a new class of activist readers and thus helped to bring about a revolution in the form and content of political debate. By giving particular attention to Milton's participation in this burst of publishing, she challenges critics to look at his literary practices as constitutive of the political culture of his age. Traditional accounts of the rise of the political subject have emphasized high political theory. Achinstein seeks instead to picture the political subject from the perspective of the street, where the noisy, scrappy, and always entertaining output of pamphleteers may have had a greater impact on political practice than any work of political theory. As she underscores the rhetorical, literary, and even utopian dimension of these writers' efforts to politicize their readers, Achinstein offers us evidence of the kind of ideological conflict that historians of the period often overlook. A portrait of early modern propaganda, her work recreates the awakening of politicians to the use of the press to influence public opinion.".
- catalog contributor b6493354.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 Literature and the revolution.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 Pamphlets.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction ---- 1. Revolution in Print: Lilburne's Jury, Areopagitica, and the Conscientious Public --- 2. Royalist Reactions: John Cleveland, Babel, and the Divine Right of Language --- 3. Debate and the Drama of Politics in the Public Sphere --- 4. Reading in the Revolution: Eikonoklastes and the Battle of Perspectives --- 5. Milton and the Fit Reader: Paradise Lost and the Parliament of Hell ---- Conclusion.".
- catalog description "The English Revolution was a revolution in reading, with over 22,000 pamphlets exploding from the presses between 1640 and 1661. What this phenomenon meant to the political life of the nation is the subject of Sharon Achinstein's book. Considering a wide range of writers, from John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Lilburne, John Cleveland, and William Prynne to a host of anonymous scribblers of every political stripe, Achinstein shows how the unprecedented outpouring of opinion in mid-seventeenth-century England created a new class of activist readers and thus helped to bring about a revolution in the form and content of political debate. By giving particular attention to Milton's participation in this burst of publishing, she challenges critics to look at his literary practices as constitutive of the political culture of his age. Traditional accounts of the rise of the political subject have emphasized high political theory. Achinstein seeks instead to picture the political subject from the perspective of the street, where the noisy, scrappy, and always entertaining output of pamphleteers may have had a greater impact on political practice than any work of political theory. As she underscores the rhetorical, literary, and even utopian dimension of these writers' efforts to politicize their readers, Achinstein offers us evidence of the kind of ideological conflict that historians of the period often overlook. A portrait of early modern propaganda, her work recreates the awakening of politicians to the use of the press to influence public opinion.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 272 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691034907 :".
- catalog isPartOf "Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Literature in history".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 Literature and the revolution.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 Pamphlets.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "821/.4 20".
- catalog subject "Books and reading England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Milton, John, 1608-1674 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "PR3592.P64 A34 1994".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Revolutionary literature, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction ---- 1. Revolution in Print: Lilburne's Jury, Areopagitica, and the Conscientious Public --- 2. Royalist Reactions: John Cleveland, Babel, and the Divine Right of Language --- 3. Debate and the Drama of Politics in the Public Sphere --- 4. Reading in the Revolution: Eikonoklastes and the Battle of Perspectives --- 5. Milton and the Fit Reader: Paradise Lost and the Parliament of Hell ---- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Milton and the revolutionary reader / Sharon Achinstein.".
- catalog type "text".