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Free Print and Non-commercial Publishing Since 1700

272 Pages

by Routledge

274 Pages

by Routledge

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This title was first published in 2000: The essays in this collection re-examine the phenomenon of "free print" in print culture. By focusing on free print the volume offers perspectives in the cultural history of textual transmission from the early-18th century to the mid-20th century. "Publishing" in the sense of making the print public, embraces the free and often unsolicited... Read more

1 Print for Free: Unsolicited Literature in ComparativePerspective,2 A Free Transmission of Knowledge: The Literary Gifts and Reception of an Eighteenth-Century Scholar,3 Free Flattery or Servile Tribute? Oxford and Cambridge Commemorative Poetry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 4 ‘The Abolition Blunderbuss’: Free Publishing and British Abolition Propaganda, 1780-1838,5 Free for All: Broadsides on the Streets of New Orleans, 1764-1900,6 The Nineteenth-Century Bible Society and ‘The Evil of Gratuitous Distribution’,7 Sent to the Wilderness: Mission Literature in Colonial America,8 Between Text and Reader: The Experience of Christian Missionaries in Bengal, 1800-50,9 Limits to Propaganda: Soviet Power and the Peasant reader in the 1920s, 10 Air-Borne Culture: Propaganda Leaflets over Occupied France in the Second World War,11 Mau M au’s War of Words: The Battle of the Pamphlets. Index.