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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780567803321

Autore

Sauer Elizabeth <1964->

Titolo

'Paper-contestations' and textual communities in England, 1640-1675 / / Elizabeth Sauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-282-02896-0

9786612028960

1-4426-7824-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Disciplina

820.9355

Soggetti

Literature and society - England - History - 17th century

Politics and literature - England - History - 17th century

Books and reading - England - History - 17th century

History

Electronic books.

England Intellectual life 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. 'Reader, here you'l plainly see judgement perverted' -- ; 2. The trials of Strafford and Laud in England's 'sad theater' -- ; 3. The 'stage-work' of Charles I -- ; 4. 'Yet we may print the errors of the age' : tyranny on trial -- ; 5. Trials of authorship and dramas of dissent -- Epilogue -- 'beyond the fifth act' : Milton and Dryden on the restoration stage.

Sommario/riassunto

Elizabeth Sauer examines how this played out in the nation's book and print industry with an emphasis on performative writings, their materiality, reception, and their extra-judicial function. 'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 challenges traditional readings of literary history, offers new insights into drama and its transgression of boundaries, and proposes a fresh approach to the politics of consensus and contestation that animated seventeenth-century culture and that distinguishes current scholarly



debates about this period."--Jacket.

"In conjunction with an evolving print culture, seventeenth-century England experienced a rise of political instability and religious dissent, the closing of the theatres, and the emergence of a middle class.