Silvia Pireddu, A never writer to an ever reader : News language in Elizabethan prose dedications and prefaces, in M.Gotti, N.Brownlees (eds.), News Discourse in Early Modern Britain

The volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Conference on\r\nHistorical News Discourse (CHINED) held in Florence (Italy) on 2-3 September\r\n2004, organized by Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence) and Patrick\r\nStuder (University of Limerick). The aim of the conference was to provide a springboard from which to launch a discussion of recent research in the field of news discourse in Early Modern Britain.The article examines how and to what extent the rhetoric of Elizabethan prose prefaces and dedications may be viewed as a vehicle of news.