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Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and
pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals
of everyday London life. This book uses Dekker's prose pamphlets
(published between 1613 and 1628) as a way in to a crucial and
relatively neglected period of the history of pamphleteering. Under
James I, after the aggressive Elizabethan exploitation of the new
media, pamphleteers carved out a discursive space in which claims
about truth and authority could be deconstructed. Avoiding the
dangerous polemic employed by the Marprelate pamphleteers, they
utilised playful, deliberately ambiguous language that drew
readers' attention to their own literary devices and games. Dekker
shows pamphlets to be unstable and roguish, and the nakedly
commercial imperatives of the book trade to be central to the world
of Jacobean cheap print, as he introduces us to a world in which
overlapping and competing discourses jostled for position in
London's streets, markets and pulpits. Contributing to the history
of print and to the history of Jacobean London, this book also
provides an appraisal of the often misunderstood prose works of an
author who deserves more attention, especially from historians,
than he has so far received. Critics are slowly becoming aware that
Dekker was not the straightforward, simple hack writer of so many
accounts; his works are complex and richly reward study in their
own right as well as in the context of his more famous predecessors
and contemporaries. As such this book will further contribute to a
post-revisionist historiography of political consciousness and
print cultures under the early Stuarts, as well as illuminate the
career of a neglected writer.
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