The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies: Miracles and the Pulp Press During the English Revolution - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0312101708 ISBN 13: 9780312101701

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1993

Synopsis

How did ordinary people, caught up in the violent political and social dislocation of the English Revolution, perceive such astonishing events? The Battle of the Frogs & Fairford's Flies attempts to answer this question through a close study of some 500 newsbooks and pulp publications produced from 1640 to 1660. Like The Great Cat Massacre and The Cheese and the Worms, this fascinating and original work enters the world of enchanted belief, superstition, folk religion, and magic.

About this title

About the Author:

Jerome Friedman is a professor in the Department of History, Kent State University.

From Library Journal:

Through an examination of hundreds of newsbooks and pulp publications, Friedman, who has previously published on the Ranters during the English Civil War, seeks to understand the mind of the ordinary English person between 1640 and 1660. He concludes that Puritan reform and regicide were unpopular, making the Restoration inevitable. He offers a fascinating account of the content of pulp literature of the period and rightly compares the works to the modern tabloid in terms of content and audience. Friedman's revelations about popular culture will appeal to a readers with a wide range of interests, including social and political history and the history of the book.
- Joseph Rosenblum, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0312101708
• ISBN 13: 9780312101701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320