Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles IIThe calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority -- especially the monarchy -- and the printed word.Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped brin. |
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... insist cannot be interpreted ; the Restoration transcends lin- guistic apprehension , so miraculous that it cannot be captured by language ; its nature is " past imagination , " " past all humane policy , " " unexpressable . " Yet all ...
... insist cannot be interpreted ; the Restoration transcends lin- guistic apprehension , so miraculous that it cannot be captured by language ; its nature is " past imagination , " " past all humane policy , " " unexpressable . " Yet all ...
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... insists , " evidence of attempts to shape popular opinion on issues rather than as genuine expressions of that opinion . " 7 Sharp's emphasis on " genuine expres- sions " should not blind us to the recognition that persuasive rhetoric ...
... insists , " evidence of attempts to shape popular opinion on issues rather than as genuine expressions of that opinion . " 7 Sharp's emphasis on " genuine expres- sions " should not blind us to the recognition that persuasive rhetoric ...
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... dismantle the locus of royal authority did not during Charles's reign end in victory for either side ; as Leinwand insists , the proper terms for describing such an encounter are " compromise , negotiation , Introduction 13.
... dismantle the locus of royal authority did not during Charles's reign end in victory for either side ; as Leinwand insists , the proper terms for describing such an encounter are " compromise , negotiation , Introduction 13.
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Contents
Restoration and Escape The Incognito King and Providential History | 25 |
The Monarchs Sacred Body The Kings Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing | 50 |
The Monarchs Profane Body His scepter and his prick are of a length | 88 |
The feminine part of every rebellion The Public Royal Power and the Mysteries of Printing | 131 |
The very Oracles of the Vulgar Stephen College and the Author on Trial | 172 |
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