Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: For cheap print and street literature, the eighteenth century represents a critical period both of continuity and of transition between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The essays in this volume begin with the period around the lapse of the Printing Act in 1695, which opened the way for printing outside of London, and also saw the transition from the use of black-letter to white-letter typefaces for items of cheap print. They then extend through to the end of the wooden hand-press period, in the first couple of decades of the nineteenth century. This introduction introduces the parameters of the subject, including questions around cheap print, literacy, and popular culture, London and the regions, chapmen and chapbooks, the matter of street literature, and the extent of the trade.
Source: Open Book Publishers
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0347.01
Authors: David Atkinson, Steve Roud
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4386421621