Exciting News!

Event, Narration and Impact from Past to Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68982-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 122, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1066 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dooley, Brendan

Wilkinson, Alexander Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Early Modern Origins

Section 1: The Force of News

1 1600: A Year to Remember

Sara 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

Thom Pritchard

Section 2: Natural Disasters

3 Troubling News Travels Fast

The Sannio Earthquake Ripples through the Spanish Monarchy

Alessandro Tuccillo

4 Narratives and Media Ecology of the “Revolutions” of Naples of 1647–48

Davide Boerio and Luca Marangolo

5 St Filippo Neri in the Spanish Press

Earthquakes, Veneration and Wondrous Events

Milena Viceconte

6 ‘Yet Once More I Shake Not Only the Earth’

News of Earthquakes in Early Modern England

Lena Liapi

Section 3: Rebellion and War

7 Reading the 1641 Irish Rebellion

Nehemiah Wallington and the Cultural Construction of Violence

Eamon Darcy

8 The Power of the Pen

Huguenot Gazettes in the Pursuit of Information during the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century

Panagiotis Georgakakis

Part 2: Eighteenth-Century Developments

Section 4: Circulation and Reception

9 Tadhg Ó Neachtain

A Case-Study in Gaelic Media Reception in Eighteenth-Century Dublin

Liam Mac Mathúna

10 MURDER! He Wrote

The News as Reported by James Ryan in his Diary (1787–1809)

Bláithín Hurley

11 News about Justice

Telling Crime Stories in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Pasquale Palmieri

12 The Imperial Crisis in the News, c.1760–1780

News and Newspapers as a Source for Writing Transnational Histories

Joel 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

Brian Wallace

14 The Czechoslovak Media Landscape in 1938

A Lack of Media-Induced Anxiety, and the Origins of the ‘Munich Betrayal’

Johana Klusek

15 All Quiet on the Domestic Front?

Dealing with Anxiety in Late Socialist Czechoslovak Media

Ondrej Daniel and Jakub Machek

16 The Media Portrayal of Radical Irish Republicans

An Anthropological Perspective

Aodhán Morris

Section 6: Trouble in the Headlines

17 Hyde and the Media—Friend or Foe?

Máire Nic an Bhaird

18 The German Air Campaign against Britain, 1915–18, and British Cartoon Responses

Chris Williams

19 ‘Every Night You Take Up the Paper You Find Someone Has Either Been Killed or Severely Injured’

The Irish Press’s Portrayal of Road Traffic Accidents in the Early Motoring Era

Leanne Blaney

20 Making a Splash

A Brief History of Headlines

Daniel Carey

Part 4: Beyond the News

21 Challenges beyond the News

Events, Neglected Voices and Collective Consciousness

Jane L. Chapman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.