In five compact chapters, Werlin looks at the relevance of broadsides and ballads as commodities produced by the infant publishing industry and how diaries reflect the development of financial record keeping at a time when England's economy was turning from agriculture to trade ... the book is accessible to nonspecialists and undergraduates interested in the economic context of early- modern English literature.
Julianne Werlin is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Duke University specializing in early modern literature. She received her doctorate from Princeton University, and has held fellowships at The University of Southern California, Central European University, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and The Huntington Library.