xviii, 403 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
ISBNs
9780521819015, 0521819016
OCLC
ocm49375710
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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, Subornations and Perjuries': pamphlets and polemic in the Restoration -- Epilogue