LEADER 03793nam 2200625 450 001 9910794558103321 005 20231110222041.0 010 $a1-5036-2799-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503627994 035 $a(CKB)4100000011970974 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6647562 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6647562 035 $a(OCoLC)1259323032 035 $a(DE-B1597)591077 035 $a(OCoLC)1226072930 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503627994 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011970974 100 $a20220321d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNetworking print in Shakespeare's England $einfluence, agency, and revolutionary change /$fBlaine Greteman 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) 225 1 $aStanford Text Technologies 311 $a1-5036-1524-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Quotations -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Methods and Data -- 2 A Small New World: Fire, Infection, and Sudden Change in the English Print Network -- 3 Hubs in the Network: Nicholas Okes and the Making of Infectious Information -- 4 Radical Betweenness: Eleanor Davies and Mary Cary -- 5 Weak Ties and the Making of a Strong Poet: John Milton's Early Publishers -- EPILOGUE: Future Directions in Networking the Past -- Notes -- Index. 330 $aIn Networking Print in Shakespeare's England, Blaine Greteman uses new analytical tools to examine early English print networks and the systemic changes that reshaped early modern literature, thought, and politics. In early modern England, printed books were a technology that connected people?not only readers and writers, but an increasingly expansive community of printers, publishers, and booksellers?in new ways. By pairing the methods of network analysis with newly available digital archives, Greteman aims to change the way we usually talk about authorship, publication, and print. As Greteman reveals, network analysis of the nearly 500,000 books printed in England before 1800 makes it possible to speak once again of a "print revolution," identifying a sudden tipping point at which the early modern print network became a small world where information could spread in new and powerful ways. Along with providing new insights into canonical literary figures like Milton and Shakespeare, data analysis also uncovers the hidden histories of key figures in this transformation who have been virtually ignored. Both a primer on the power of network analysis and a critical intervention in early modern studies, the book is ultimately an extended meditation on agency and the complexity of action in context. 410 0$aStanford Text Technologies 606 $aSocial networks$xHistory$zEngland$y17th century 606 $aBook industries and trade$xHistory$zEngland$y17th century 606 $aEarly printed books$xSocial aspects$zEngland$y17th century 610 $aBritish. 610 $aDigital Humanities. 610 $aEarly Modern. 610 $aLiterary Studies. 610 $aNetworks. 610 $aPrint. 610 $aRenaissance. 615 0$aSocial networks$xHistory 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory 615 0$aEarly printed books$xSocial aspects 676 $a094.20942 700 $aGreteman$b Blaine$01475299 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794558103321 996 $aNetworking print in Shakespeare's England$93865057 997 $aUNINA