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OverviewInternational tragedies, national disgraces, and local dangers: reporting can magnify trauma. But how can we gain a deeper analytical understanding of episodes seemingly too immediate for detached observation by our sources or even, perhaps, by ourselves? This volume brings together a broad range of current research in Europe and abroad, regarding an issue of crucial importance for understanding past cultures and our own. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brendan Dooley , Alexander Samuel WilkinsonPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 122 Weight: 1.029kg ISBN: 9789004689824ISBN 10: 9004689826 Pages: 444 Publication Date: 04 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Early Modern Origins Section 1: The Force of News 1 1600: A Year to Remember Sara Mansutti, Wouter Kreuze, Carlotta Paltrinieri, Lorenzo Allori, Davide Boerio and Brendan Dooley 2 Information Shadows Meteorological Disaster and Misinformation across Europe in the Wake of the 1625 Raid on Cadiz Thom Pritchard Section 2: Natural Disasters 3 Troubling News Travels Fast The Sannio Earthquake Ripples through the Spanish Monarchy Alessandro Tuccillo 4 Narratives and Media Ecology of the “Revolutions” of Naples of 1647–48 Davide Boerio and Luca Marangolo 5 St Filippo Neri in the Spanish Press Earthquakes, Veneration and Wondrous Events Milena Viceconte 6 ‘Yet Once More I Shake Not Only the Earth’ News of Earthquakes in Early Modern England Lena Liapi Section 3: Rebellion and War 7 Reading the 1641 Irish Rebellion Nehemiah Wallington and the Cultural Construction of Violence Eamon Darcy 8 The Power of the Pen Huguenot Gazettes in the Pursuit of Information during the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century Panagiotis Georgakakis Part 2: Eighteenth-Century Developments Section 4: Circulation and Reception 9 Tadhg Ó Neachtain A Case-Study in Gaelic Media Reception in Eighteenth-Century Dublin Liam Mac Mathúna 10 MURDER! He Wrote The News as Reported by James Ryan in his Diary (1787–1809) Bláithín Hurley 11 News about Justice Telling Crime Stories in Eighteenth-Century Europe Pasquale Palmieri 12 The Imperial Crisis in the News, c.1760–1780 News and Newspapers as a Source for Writing Transnational Histories Joel Herman Part 3: The Media and the Masses Section 5: The Politics of News 13 The Wars at Home Victorian Imperial Sieges and the Conscription of Public Opinion Brian Wallace 14 The Czechoslovak Media Landscape in 1938 A Lack of Media-Induced Anxiety, and the Origins of the ‘Munich Betrayal’ Johana Kłusek 15 All Quiet on the Domestic Front? Dealing with Anxiety in Late Socialist Czechoslovak Media Ondřej Daniel and Jakub Machek 16 The Media Portrayal of Radical Irish Republicans An Anthropological Perspective Aodhán Morris Section 6: Trouble in the Headlines 17 Hyde and the Media—Friend or Foe? Máire Nic an Bhaird 18 The German Air Campaign against Britain, 1915–18, and British Cartoon Responses Chris Williams 19 ‘Every Night You Take Up the Paper You Find Someone Has Either Been Killed or Severely Injured’ The Irish Press’s Portrayal of Road Traffic Accidents in the Early Motoring Era Leanne Blaney 20 Making a Splash A Brief History of Headlines Daniel Carey Part 4: Beyond the News 21 Challenges beyond the News Events, Neglected Voices and Collective Consciousness Jane L. Chapman IndexReviews“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.” Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10. “One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.” Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014). Author InformationBrendan Dooley, PhD (1986, University of Chicago), is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork. Among other endeavors in the field of media studies, he has been the principal investigator of the Irish Research Council-funded EURONEWS project inaugurated in 2019. Alexander S. Wilkinson, PhD (2002, University of St Andrews), is Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of the European book in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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