The politics of the public sphere in early modern England

Public Persons and Popular Spirits
Herausgeber: Lake, Peter; Pincus, Steve

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Produktbeschreibung

Including contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the post-reformation period from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. Makes a substantive contribution to the historiography of early modern England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780719053184
• ISBN-10: 0719053188
• Artikelnr.: 35527631

Autorenporträt

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University Steven Pincus is Bradford Durfee Professor of History at Yale University

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking the public
sphere in early modern England. Peter Lake and Steven Pincus 1. The
pilgrimage of grace and the public sphere. Ethan Shagan 2. The politics of
popularity and the public sphere: the 'monarchical republic' of Elizabeth I
defends itself. Peter Lake 3. The smiling crocodile: the Earl of Essex and
late-Elizabethan 'popularity'. Paul Hammer 4. The 'public man' in late
Tudor and early Stuart England. Richard Cust 5. The embarrassment of
libels: perceptions and representations of verse libeling in early Stuart
England. Alastair Bellany 6. Marketing a massacre: Amboyna, the East India
Company and the public sphere in early modern England. Anthony Milton 7.
Men, the 'public' and the 'private' in the English revolution. Ann Hughes
8. The state and civil society in early modern England: capitalism,
causation and Habermas' bourgeois public sphere. Steven Pincus 9. Matthew
Smith v the 'great men': plot-talk, the public spere and the problem of
credibility in the 1690s. Rachel Weil 10. How rational was the later Stuart
public sphere? Mark Knights Index