Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England

Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and wide-spread concern to the early modern reader. Berry''s study provides the first full length analysis of John Dunton''s Athenia...