Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning.
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Berry |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press |
| Release Date | 2007-08 |
| ISBN | 0520254171 |
| Pages | 325 pages |
| Rating | 4/5 (76 users) |
