Politicians and Pamphleteers

Peacey, Jason

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“…43 In England, Parliament further promoted the use of double standards in the application of legislation, particularly in the period of 1640-1649, when members frequently breached their own legislation by invoking their parliamentary privileges to publish their speeches and pervert the course of justice by protecting favored authors. 44 In summary, political battles were increasingly being fought in the public arena, indicating the gradual decline of the coercive regime of the old, absolutist monarchs and the emergence of a new form of political rule. At first, absolutism regarded open religious and political communication and debate as undesirable.…”

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“…45 As Peacey observes, they represented an attempt to exert both a negative influence on the press through censorship and a positive influence by stimulating the publication of innocuous books. 46…”

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“…47 In effect, as the seventeenth century progressed, the pen did conquer the sword as a political weapon and the influence of oppositional pamphlets forced monarchs and the aristocracy to reconquer public opinion continually with counterpropaganda. 48 Propaganda became the complement of censorship in the sense that it attempted to compensate for the failure of the censor to silence discordant voices. The French cardinal Richelieu, for example, created a censorship regime that prevailed in France from 1626 until the French Revolution.…”

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“…55 Thus, for Peacey, censorship and propaganda are complementary: "Propaganda, and the engagement with the public through a broad range of literary forms, represents an attempt to restrict the boundaries of discussion and to control the terms of debate." 56 In England in the 1640s, for example, the divisions in national and parliamentary politics provided an important context for propaganda and pamphleteering, blurring the distinction between official and unofficial publications. 57 Particularly from the 1640s onward, this conquest of public opinion contributed to a growing sophistication in the printing industry, represented by the growing diversity and professionalized production of pamphlets.…”

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Pamphlets, Commodification, Media Market Regulation and Hegemony: A Transnational Inquiry into the Seventeenth-Century Print Industry in England, France, and the Netherlands

Verhoest¹

2016

Media Industries Journal

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Pamphlet history provides early evidence of the mutually constitutive relation of media commodification and political hegemony in the development of parliamentarianism and capitalism. This article traces pamphlets' history in England, France, and the Netherlands. Pamphlets were first developed as a medium for religious and political opposition but were soon recuperated by the ruling classes as a medium of propaganda. As the tensions between vested powers and opposition began to diminish, pamphlets evolved into a more informative and dialogical medium. The regulatory regime of the media, which was at first characterized by repressive censorship, gradually transformed into a market-regulated media regime. Seventeenth-century pamphlets may be considered the first extensively commoditized mass medium in media history.

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Pamphlets, Commodification, Media Market Regulation and Hegemony: A Transnational Inquiry into the Seventeenth-Century Print Industry in England, France, and the Netherlands

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2016

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“…Peacey suggested that, shortly after this, Pym and Saye turned to the writer Henry Parker, 'to produce the response which they desired, but which they felt unlikely to secure through parliamentary means'. 49 The result was the publication of Parker's famous Observations upon some of his Majesties late Answers and Expresses in July 1642. There were, however, other important members of the war party faction in both Houses who had ample experience in utilizing print and underhand tactics to further their aims.…”

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Parliament, print and the politics of disinformation, 1642–3

White

2019

Historical Research

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This article explores the political uses of disinformation during the English civil war. It argues that forged and falsified publications formed part of a sophisticated propaganda strategy employed by the parliamentarian war party, aimed at discrediting Charles I during the first months of the conflict. It therefore offers an important corrective to traditional emphases on the anxieties that partisan print engendered. Furthermore, by showing that this strategy drew on both the practices and texts associated with early Stuart scribal opposition to Caroline rule, the article suggests an important link between pre‐war manuscript culture and the print practices of the sixteen‐forties.

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An “Amsterdamnified” Public Sphere: English Newsbooks, Pamphleteering, and Polemic in European Context

Peacey¹

2019

Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660

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In 1641, a proto-royalist tract called Religions Enemies complained that England had become "Amsterdamnified." Its point was to warn against England becoming a society bedevilled by "several opinions," where religion was "the common discourse and table talk in every tavern and alehouse," and "where a man shall hardly find five together in one mind, and yet every one presumes he is in the right." 1 This chapter argues that this neglected comment highlights a poorly understood dimension of the "print revolution" in seventeenth-century England. European influences and European print culture lay at the heart of the transformation of print and polemic in the decades before and after the civil wars, and cheap print-pamphlets, ballads, broadsides, and newsbooks-threatened to revolutionize English public culture. This chapter examines the process by which the political authorities in England found ways of adapting and developing practices with which to address such external threats. 2The focus on "cheap print" and communicative practices, of course, has been one of the most striking advances within recent historiography on seventeenthcentury England, driven more or less consciously by the desire to confront so-called "revisionist" accounts of the origins and significance of the civil wars. It has generated a sophisticated understanding of news and pamphleteering, in terms of the nature and uses of print and its role in the political and religious upheavals of the Stuart age. Ideas about the existence of a "print revolution," and about the

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Politicians and Pamphleteers

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Pamphlets, Commodification, Media Market Regulation and Hegemony: A Transnational Inquiry into the Seventeenth-Century Print Industry in England, France, and the Netherlands

Pamphlets, Commodification, Media Market Regulation and Hegemony: A Transnational Inquiry into the Seventeenth-Century Print Industry in England, France, and the Netherlands

Parliament, print and the politics of disinformation, 1642–3

An “Amsterdamnified” Public Sphere: English Newsbooks, Pamphleteering, and Polemic in European Context

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