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Exciting News!
Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 122
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 122
International tragedies, national disgraces, and local dangers: reporting can magnify trauma. But how can we gain a deeper analytical understanding of episodes seemingly too immediate for detached observation by our sources or even, perhaps, by ourselves? This volume brings together a broad range of current research in Europe and abroad, regarding an issue of crucial importance for understanding past cultures and our own. Papers discuss the ramifications of media-induced anxiety and anxiety-induced mediality, engaging the humanities, including history, film studies, literature, folklore, creative writing and adjacent fields intersected by sociology, politology, psychology, & anthropology. News media here include all means of mass communication impinging on daily experience, from books to music, from the social web to films, on multiple platforms and in multiple languages across municipal, state, and regional boundaries.
Brendan Dooley, PhD (1986, University of Chicago), is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork. Among other endeavors in the field of media studies, he has been the principal investigator of the Irish Research Council-funded EURONEWS project inaugurated in 2019.
Alexander S. Wilkinson, PhD (2002, University of St Andrews), is Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of the European book in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Alexander S. Wilkinson, PhD (2002, University of St Andrews), is Professor of Early Modern History at University College Dublin. He has published widely on the history of the European book in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 1600: A Year to Remember
âSara Mansutti, Wouter Kreuze, Carlotta Paltrinieri, Lorenzo Allori, Davide Boerio and Brendan Dooley
2 Information Shadows
Meteorological Disaster and Misinformation across Europe in the Wake of the 1625 Raid on Cadiz
âThom Pritchard
3 Troubling News Travels Fast
The Sannio Earthquake Ripples through the Spanish Monarchy
âAlessandro Tuccillo
4 Narratives and Media Ecology of the âRevolutionsâ of Naples of 1647â48
âDavide Boerio and Luca Marangolo
5 St Filippo Neri in the Spanish Press
Earthquakes, Veneration and Wondrous Events
âMilena Viceconte
6 âYet Once More I Shake Not Only the Earthâ
News of Earthquakes in Early Modern England
âLena Liapi
7 Reading the 1641 Irish Rebellion
Nehemiah Wallington and the Cultural Construction of Violence
âEamon Darcy
8 The Power of the Pen
Huguenot Gazettes in the Pursuit of Information during the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century
âPanagiotis Georgakakis
9 Tadhg à Neachtain
A Case-Study in Gaelic Media Reception in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
âLiam Mac Mathúna
10 MURDER! He Wrote
The News as Reported by James Ryan in his Diary (1787â1809)
âBláithÃn Hurley
11 News about Justice
Telling Crime Stories in Eighteenth-Century Europe
âPasquale Palmieri
12 The Imperial Crisis in the News, c.1760â1780
News and Newspapers as a Source for Writing Transnational Histories
âJoel Herman
13 The Wars at Home
Victorian Imperial Sieges and the Conscription of Public Opinion
âBrian Wallace
14 The Czechoslovak Media Landscape in 1938
A Lack of Media-Induced Anxiety, and the Origins of the âMunich Betrayalâ
âJohana KÅusek
15 All Quiet on the Domestic Front?
Dealing with Anxiety in Late Socialist Czechoslovak Media
âOndÅej Daniel and Jakub Machek
16 The Media Portrayal of Radical Irish Republicans
An Anthropological Perspective
âAodhán Morris
17 Hyde and the MediaâFriend or Foe?
âMáire Nic an Bhaird
18 The German Air Campaign against Britain, 1915â18, and British Cartoon Responses
âChris Williams
19 âEvery Night You Take Up the Paper You Find Someone Has Either Been Killed or Severely Injuredâ
The Irish Pressâs Portrayal of Road Traffic Accidents in the Early Motoring Era
âLeanne Blaney
20 Making a Splash
A Brief History of Headlines
âDaniel Carey
21 Challenges beyond the News
Events, Neglected Voices and Collective Consciousness
âJane L. Chapman
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Early Modern Origins
Section 1: The Force of News
1 1600: A Year to Remember
âSara Mansutti, Wouter Kreuze, Carlotta Paltrinieri, Lorenzo Allori, Davide Boerio and Brendan Dooley
2 Information Shadows
Meteorological Disaster and Misinformation across Europe in the Wake of the 1625 Raid on Cadiz
âThom Pritchard
Section 2: Natural Disasters
3 Troubling News Travels Fast
The Sannio Earthquake Ripples through the Spanish Monarchy
âAlessandro Tuccillo
4 Narratives and Media Ecology of the âRevolutionsâ of Naples of 1647â48
âDavide Boerio and Luca Marangolo
5 St Filippo Neri in the Spanish Press
Earthquakes, Veneration and Wondrous Events
âMilena Viceconte
6 âYet Once More I Shake Not Only the Earthâ
News of Earthquakes in Early Modern England
âLena Liapi
Section 3: Rebellion and War
7 Reading the 1641 Irish Rebellion
Nehemiah Wallington and the Cultural Construction of Violence
âEamon Darcy
8 The Power of the Pen
Huguenot Gazettes in the Pursuit of Information during the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century
âPanagiotis Georgakakis
Part 2: Eighteenth-Century Developments
Section 4: Circulation and Reception
9 Tadhg à Neachtain
A Case-Study in Gaelic Media Reception in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
âLiam Mac Mathúna
10 MURDER! He Wrote
The News as Reported by James Ryan in his Diary (1787â1809)
âBláithÃn Hurley
11 News about Justice
Telling Crime Stories in Eighteenth-Century Europe
âPasquale Palmieri
12 The Imperial Crisis in the News, c.1760â1780
News and Newspapers as a Source for Writing Transnational Histories
âJoel Herman
Part 3: The Media and the Masses
Section 5: The Politics of News
13 The Wars at Home
Victorian Imperial Sieges and the Conscription of Public Opinion
âBrian Wallace
14 The Czechoslovak Media Landscape in 1938
A Lack of Media-Induced Anxiety, and the Origins of the âMunich Betrayalâ
âJohana KÅusek
15 All Quiet on the Domestic Front?
Dealing with Anxiety in Late Socialist Czechoslovak Media
âOndÅej Daniel and Jakub Machek
16 The Media Portrayal of Radical Irish Republicans
An Anthropological Perspective
âAodhán Morris
Section 6: Trouble in the Headlines
17 Hyde and the MediaâFriend or Foe?
âMáire Nic an Bhaird
18 The German Air Campaign against Britain, 1915â18, and British Cartoon Responses
âChris Williams
19 âEvery Night You Take Up the Paper You Find Someone Has Either Been Killed or Severely Injuredâ
The Irish Pressâs Portrayal of Road Traffic Accidents in the Early Motoring Era
âLeanne Blaney
20 Making a Splash
A Brief History of Headlines
âDaniel Carey
Part 4: Beyond the News
21 Challenges beyond the News
Events, Neglected Voices and Collective Consciousness
âJane L. Chapman
Index
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