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Making the News Raymond Joad

Making the News By Raymond Joad

Making the News by Raymond Joad


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Summary

Selections from the available newsbooks of the 17th century. The extracts in this book provide the reader with contemporary accounts of landmark events such as the outbreak of the civil war and the Restoration, as well as reports of crimes, witchcraft and mysterious weather portents.

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Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary ENG by Raymond Joad

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Table of Contents

To your tents, o Israel - the Long Parliament and the outbreak of hostilities; The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau - linguistic aspects of the war; Sleeping with the devil - women in newsbooks; The hanged woman miraculously revived - birth, life, sickness, death, providence and the inexplicable; That the people be not bound but free - the trial and execution of Charles I; A prospect of a new Jerusalem - letters from abroad; The head not quite cut off from the body - crime and punishment; With a pen like a weaver's beam - Marchemount Nedham; Men indued with new lights - the inspiration and persecution of the people; To amuse and abuse the people - the Restoration.

Additional information

GOR003871856
9780900075537
0900075538
Making the News: An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary ENG by Raymond Joad
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
19930901
495
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