LEADER 05485nam 22007213u 450 001 9910462616303321 005 20210113182126.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000326202 035 $a(EBL)240363 035 $a(OCoLC)252967468 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC240363 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000326202 100 $a20130418d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aWriting and Society$b[electronic resource] $eLiteracy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 210 $aHoboken $cTaylor and Francis$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (211 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-08497-0 327 $aWRITING AND SOCIETY Literacy, print and politics in Britain 1590-1660; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 'Paper I make my Friend and mind's true Glass': early modern literacy; Christopher Marlowe's new sin; Debating early modern literary culture; 'Vale,soror, anima mea': reading the moment of writing; 2 Status and literacy: the qualities of people; From 'degree' to 'political arithmetic': mapping social hierarchy; The titled nobility: 'the Theatre of Hospitality'; The gentry: 'to be idle, and live upon the sweat of others' 327 $aThe professions and major trades: 'minds...more thoughtful and full of business 'Yeamen: 'they that in times past made all France afraid'; Craftsmen, tradesmen, copyholders: 'Of the fourth sort of men which do not rule'; Apprentices and servants: 'Seeking service and place'; Husbandmen, cottagers, labourers, vagrants: literacy at the margins of survival; 3 'Towardness': aptitude, gender and rank in early modern education Scripture for the boy who drives the plough; Scripture for the boy who drives the plough; From absey to grammar school 327 $a'Education is the bringing up of one, not to live alone, but amongst others, because company is our natural cognisance' 4 'Mechanics in the Suburbs of Literature': printing and publishing 1590-1660; Printing in renaissance London; The Worshipful Company of Stationers; 'Assignable productions of the brain': authorship and copyright; 'Only for you, only to you': patronage, dedications, payment; 'Let not one Brother oppress another. Do as you would be done unto': printing from revolution to Restoration; 5 Censorship and state formation: heresy, sedition and the Celtic literary cultures 327 $a'Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror': defining early modern censorship The Stationers' Company, overseer of the intellectual economy; 'Ireland is but swordland': literary patronage, censorship and persecution in the Celtic cultures; 6 'Penny merriments, penny godlinesses': new writing for new readers; Literacy and social change: 'More solid Things do not shew the complexion of the Times so well as Ballads and Libels'; 'To any Reader He or She, It makes no matter what they be': John Taylor the Water Poet; The Praise of Hemp Seed: Taylor's inversion of all values 327 $aThe hydro-poet, sculler-scholar between cultures 7 'Dressed up with the flowers of a Library': women reading and writing; Mistress Hazzard's revelation; Going astray among the Elizabethans: critical problems in early modern female literacy; Gendered behaviour in early modern society: conventions and realities; 'How careful must you be, To be Your Self': Lady Anne Clifford's Great Picture; 8 'The power of self at such over-flowing times': the politics of literacy; 'I never read it in any book, nor received it from any mouth': writing and revolt 1450-1650; 'Mob' (1691): The common mass of people 327 $athe lower orders 330 $aWriting and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses:* the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain* structures of p 606 $a16th century 606 $a17th century 606 $aAuthors and readers 606 $aEnglish literature 606 $aEnglish literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism 606 $aGreat Britain 606 $aHistory 606 $aLiteracy 606 $aLiterature and society 606 $aPolitics and literature 606 $aPrinting 606 $aPublishers and publishing 606 $aWritten communication 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$a16th century. 615 4$a17th century. 615 4$aAuthors and readers. 615 4$aEnglish literature. 615 4$aEnglish literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism. 615 4$aGreat Britain. 615 4$aHistory. 615 4$aLiteracy. 615 4$aLiterature and society. 615 4$aPolitics and literature. 615 4$aPrinting. 615 4$aPublishers and publishing. 615 4$aWritten communication. 676 $a306.48809420903 676 $a820.9358 700 $aWheale$b Nigel$0164336 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462616303321 996 $aWriting and society$9704994 997 $aUNINA