Britain & Ireland
Seventeenth-Century Print Culture
By , University of East Anglia (November 2004)
Sections: Britain & Ireland
Subjects: Literature, Social History, History.
Places: Europe, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1600-1699.
Key Topics: society, leisure and recreation, language.
Abstract
Early modern cultural historians hang on to Habermas’ phrase ‘the public sphere’ against their better knowledge. This essay looks at the historiographical background to its reception and use, and proposes an alternative approach.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00123.x
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