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Article: Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain.(Book Review)
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Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain. By Joad Raymond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xviii + 407.
Joad Raymond's Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain examines the patterns of pamphlet production and circulation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, situating the genre within the political, economic, and cultural history of the period and offering its readers a detailed analysis of the pamphlet as object and idea. Raymond opens with the origins of the form in the popular culture of the sixteenth century, focusing especially on the Marprelate controversy of the 1580s, and closes with the full development of the ...