Addressing a Public in the Seventeenth Century
This article explores instances of early modern textual addresses to, or representations of, the entity of the public in a corpus of little-studied paratexts, dictionaries and pamphlet literature as well as better-known court productions. Despite variations in focus, the public
was conceived of as an essentially limited body, and its shared values were considerably removed from later conceptions of opinion publique.
Document Type: Regular Paper
Publication date: 01 November 2010
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