Paper bullets print and kingship under Charles II /
Weber, Harold.
Paper bullets print and kingship under Charles II / Harold M. Weber. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (306 pages)
ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Representations of the King; 1. Restoration and Escape: The Incognito King and Providential History; 2. The Monarch's Sacred Body: The King's Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing; 3. The Monarch's Profane Body: ""His scepter and his prick are of a length""; Part Two: The Language of Censorship; 4. ""The feminine part of every rebellion"": The Public, Royal Power, and the Mysteries of Printing; 5. ""The very Oracles of the Vulgar"": Stephen College and the Author on Trial.
The 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 --
9780813156675
Kings and rulers in literature.
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685--In literature.
Great Britain--History--Charles II, 1660-1685--Historiography.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Electronic Books.
DA445 / .P374 2015
Paper bullets print and kingship under Charles II / Harold M. Weber. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (306 pages)
ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Representations of the King; 1. Restoration and Escape: The Incognito King and Providential History; 2. The Monarch's Sacred Body: The King's Evil and the Politics of Royal Healing; 3. The Monarch's Profane Body: ""His scepter and his prick are of a length""; Part Two: The Language of Censorship; 4. ""The feminine part of every rebellion"": The Public, Royal Power, and the Mysteries of Printing; 5. ""The very Oracles of the Vulgar"": Stephen College and the Author on Trial.
The 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 --
9780813156675
Kings and rulers in literature.
Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685--In literature.
Great Britain--History--Charles II, 1660-1685--Historiography.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Electronic Books.
DA445 / .P374 2015