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Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England

By Tim Somers

Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England General education

Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England

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Cheap' genres of print such as ballads, almanacs and playing cards were part of everyday life in seventeenth-century society - ubiquitous and disposable. Toward the end of the century, however, individuals began to preserve, arrange and display articles of cheap print within carefully curated collections. What motivated this sudden urge to preserve the ephemeral? This book answers that question by analysing the social, political and intellectual factors behind the formation of cheap print collections, how these collections were used by their owners, and what this activity can tell us about 'print culture' in the early modern period.
The book's central collector is John Bagford (1650-1715), a shoemaker who became a dealer of prints and other 'curiosities' to important collectors of the time such as Samuel Pepys, Hans Sloane and Robert Harley. Bagford's own rich and largely unstudied collection is afascinating study in its own right and his position at the centre of commercial and intellectual networks opens up a whole world of collecting. This world encompasses later Stuart partisan political culture, when modern parties and the 'public sphere' first emerged; the 'New Science' and 'virtuoso culture' with its milieu of natural philosophers, antiquaries and artisans; the aural and visual landscape of marketplaces, streets and alehouses; and developing practices of record-keeping, life-writing and historical writing during the long eighteenth century.
Product details
Number of Pages:
324
Release Date:
2021-10-01
Publication Date:
2021-10-01
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1783275499
ISBN13:
9781783275496
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
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Weight:
652 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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