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Alexandra Sippel, « Laurent Curelly, An Anatomy of an English Radical Newspaper: The Moderate (1648-9) », Miranda, ID : 10.4000/miranda.16688
Laurent Curelly’s title is a tribute to the many Anatomies that were published in the early seventeenth century—not least to Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy: the preface to the fifth edition lends an introductory quote that reveals and derides the contemporary crave for news. An Anatomy of an English Radical Newspaper: The Moderate (1648-9) indeed “dissects” [4] the 66 issues of The Moderate that were published between June 1648 and September 1649. The author further resorts to the metaphor of...