Secret Rites and Secret Writing

1989. Potter, Lois. Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641-1660. Cambridge, [UK]: Cambridge University Press, [1989]. xvi, 242 pp. Hardcover. Near-fine. Internally clean. $55. * Contents: Machine Derived Contents Note: List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. 'Secrecy's Now Published': Royalists and the Press, 1641-60; 2. 'Our Cabbalistical Adversaries': Secret Language; 3. Genre as Code: Romance and Tragicomedy; 4. Intertextuality… Read more about this item

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Paperback / softback. New. This book is a study of the various kinds of royalist writing during the period of the English Civil War and the Interregnum, when printing and publishing were largely controlled by Parliament. Lois Potter examines the effectiveness of this control and the means by which writers evaded it.

Cambridge University Press, 2009. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 260 pages. 8.90x5.98x0.79 inches.

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