Seventeenth-Century English Newsbooks

Authors

  • J. Milton French Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v7i1.1207

Keywords:

Bibliography, Books, History, Printing

Abstract

French discusses the genre of the English Newsbook from the seventeenth century and the holdings of such books in the Rutgers library.  He characterizes them as "frankly unreliable but frequently charming or spicy or even rowdy gossip."

Author Biography

J. Milton French, Rutgers University

Dutgers University Libraries

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Published

2012-04-09

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