Pamphlet Culture Research Articles

The Cavaliero Pasquil: An Anti-Marprelate Persona

Abstract: Broadly considered, the popular pamphlets written against Martin Marprelate in the months encompassing 1589–1591 are treated as pale imitations of their adversary, whose rhetorical and argumentative virtuosity earned him great notoriety. Considered as strenuous attempts to both counter Martinist aggression and also solve the rhetorical problems he presented, the aggressive Pasquil tracts (1589–1590) reveal how the adoption of an established satirical persona and mode allows a writer defending the Elizabethan bishops to both adopt and condemn the dangerous speech marking the Marprelate program. The tracts thus exhibit the self-generative and popular appeal characteristic of early print and pamphlet culture.

Heresy as Treason: English ‘Ecclesiastical Diplomacy’ in the United Provinces, 1610–19

ABSTRACT This article characterises the influence of English ‘Ecclesiastical Diplomacy’ on notions of heresy and treason in the United Provinces of the Dutch Republic. It works backwards from the stage of the Globe Theatre in London to the trial of Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and finally the Synod of Dort in order to explore how cross-channel diplomatic networks were leveraged to reconcile theological and ecclesiastical transnationalism with the formation of a state church. This creates an unlikely but intriguing dialogue between high politics, predestinarian thought, pamphlet culture, mercantilism and even foreign intelligence gathering. The dialogue exposes interconnection between the courts of James I and Maurice of Orange and the English and Dutch churches, which leads to a reassessment of the significance of Synod of Dort in early modern diplomatic history and the magisterial reformation.

Seventeenth-Century Pamphlets as Constituents of a Public Communications Space: A Historical Critique of Public Sphere Theory

A public sphere in which people can freely discuss worldly affairs is arguably an essential building block of deliberative democracies. As a theoretical and historical concept, however, the public sphere concept is far from unequivocal. This article reviews Habermasian public sphere theory and particularly his failure, according to critics, to establish the ‘bourgeois public sphere’ as an historical category. It provides a more realistic historical account that helps to reframe contemporary conceptions of the public sphere. It argues that the 17th century’s culture of pamphleteering created the space for a proto-public sphere, characterized as a complex network of discursive practices mixing commercial doggerel, state-sponsored propaganda and reasoned argument. These practices were part of contradictory but mutually constitutive processes in the context of religious and political struggles that coincided with the gestation of parliamentary democracy.

Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London, by Anna Bayman

Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London, by Anna Bayman

Anna Bayman. Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London.

The literary and economic cultures of early modern London have been the subject of sustained and productive critical attention in recent years, with a variety of ambitious studies taking up the literature of page and stage amid the backdrop of the sustained and substantial growth of England's capital. Anna Bayman's Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London adds significantly to this narrative of metropolitan writing circa 1600 by examining one of the most prolific and intriguing authors of the early seventeenth century. As her title suggests, Bayman situates Dekker in the print networks of professional pamphleteering, arguing that these ephemeral, ambiguous, and unabashedly for-profit books were especially attuned to shifting urban conditions and written for a heterogeneous audience. According to Bayman, because of his sharp awareness of the ways that material concerns shaped his information, his incessant desire to interrogate authority and authorship itself, and his ambivalence to a diverse readership, Dekker engaged with an increasingly literate and specifically metropolitan audience that emerged in the years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I.

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Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London by Anna Bayman (review)

Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London by Anna Bayman (review)

Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London. Anna Bayman. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. vii + 160 pp. $119.95.

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Review of 'Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London'

Review of 'Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London'

Anna Bayman. Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 160. $119.95 (cloth).

Anna Bayman. Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. 160. $119.95 (cloth).

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660. By Marcus Nevitt

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660. By Marcus Nevitt

Literature and Complaint in England, 1272-1553

This learned and well-organised book explores the legal substrate of what has been called ‘complaint literature’, locating the roots of that literature in new plaint procedures made available by the Crown in the mid- to late thirteenth century, and demonstrating the continuing closeness of form and theme between evolving regimes of plaint and petition and what the author engagingly calls ‘the literature of clamour’. Wendy Scase ranges impressively widely, drawing out the textual links between later medieval petitionary practice and the lively culture of pamphleteering and libel in the sixteenth century: Reformation and commonwealth polemics did not spring anew from the fresh air of the Renaissance; they built on well-established traditions. Scase also makes a significant and thought-provoking case for a new pathway in the making of English literature: the demand for English-language petitions led clerks to alter the rules of dictamen and lay down the frameworks for a standard literary English, while the judicial legitimacy (sometimes) accorded to public clamour encouraged the production of vernacular poetry vocalising public and popular concerns.

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660. By MARCUS NEVITT.

In this sophisticated study of pamphlet culture in the 1640s and 1650s Marcus Nevitt attempts to draw a more ‘gender-sensitive picture’ of pamphlet discourse in the period (p. 3). His contention is that whilst ‘pamphlets, and pamphlet culture more generally, have frequently been located amongst the most inclusive and democratic aspects of early modern English society’, these notions of inclusivity and democratization can conceal ‘the material and rhetorical barriers that women encountered when participating in revolutionary pamphlet culture’ (pp. 1, 5). Nevitt’s book is divided into five chapters and proceeds, sensibly, given the topic of pamphlet culture, by detailed case study. He considers the radical Katherine Chidley’s involvement in debates over religious toleration in the 1640s, then examines the pamphlet writings of Mary Pope and Elizabeth Poole following the regicide. Nevitt goes on to look at Elizabeth Alkin (‘Parliament Joan’) as he attempts to further our understanding of the role women played in the book trade and in the production of pamphlets and newsbooks. In the final two chapters Nevitt seeks to unpack the significance of the physical (and naked) protest of an anonymous woman at a church service and the contribution made by women to the Quaker campaign against tithes.

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Contents: Introduction: Women's agency and early modern pamphlet culture 'Justification cannot be self-justification': Katherine Chidley and the discourses of religious toleration Agency in crisis: women write the regicide A woman in the business of revolutionary news: Elizabeth Alkin, 'Parliament Joan' and the Commonwealth newsbook Clothing the naked woman: writing women's agency in revolutionary England Gender identities and women's agency in early modern tithe dispute Conclusion Bibliography Index.

MARCUS NEVITT, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660.

MARCUS NEVITT, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660.

Reviews: Northern English: A Social and Cultural History, Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household, Shakespeare's Histories and Counter Histories, the Uses of History in Early Modern England, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of

Reviews: Northern English: A Social and Cultural History, Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household, Shakespeare's Histories and Counter Histories, the Uses of History in Early Modern England, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660 ‐ By Marcus Nevitt

<i>Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660</i> ‐ By Marcus Nevitt

MARCUS NEVITT. Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660.

MARCUS NEVITT. Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660.

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660