LEADER 04685oam 2200613I 450 001 9910962240903321 005 20240505210646.0 010 $a1-138-27346-5 010 $a1-315-25786-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315257860 035 $a(CKB)3710000001081783 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4817306 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11356476 035 $a(OCoLC)975224217 035 $a(OCoLC)988383987 035 $a(OCoLC)974711333 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB140060 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4817306 035 $a(BIP)58362587 035 $a(BIP)7912574 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001081783 100 $a20180706e20162003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aDidactic literature in England 1500-1800 $eexpertise constructed /$fedited by Natasha Glaisyer, Sara Pennell 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (226 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aFirst published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-0669-4 311 08$a1-351-94433-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction / Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell -- 2. The Bible and didactic literature in early modern England / Scott Mandelbrote -- 3. Didactic sources of musical learning in early modern England / Susan Forscher Weiss -- 4. Seventeenth-century didactic readers, their literature, and ours / Randall Ingram -- 5. Polite society and perceptions of the sun and the moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711 / Anna Marie E. Roos -- 6. Frenc conversation or 'glittering gibberish'? Learning French in eighteenth-century England / Michele Cohen -- 7. The gardener and the book / Rebecca Bushnell -- 8. Deformity's filthy fingers : cosmetics and the plague in Artificiall embellishments, or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665) / Christoph Heyl -- 9. Richardson's barometer : colonial representation in grammatical texts / Richard Steadman-Jones -- 10. Containing the marvellous : instructions to buyers and sellers / Phyllis Whitman Hunter. 330 $aRanging from music to astronomy, gardening to the Bible, this essay collection is the first multi-disciplinary volume to examine a kind of text that was a staple of early modern English publishing: the how-to book. It tackles a wide range of subjects - grammars, music books, gardening manuals, teach-yourself book-keeping - while highlighting the commonalities of diverse texts as didactic works, and situating this material in wider intellectual and material contexts. An introductory essay explores the uses of didactic texts in early modern culture, evaluates their relationships with other literary forms, and establishes the significance of such texts within the cultural history of the period. There follow contributions by an international group of scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including the history of science, literature, lingustics, and musicology. The volume addresses the important issue of how texts that tend to be regarded today as 'non-literary' functioned within early modern literature. It also evaluates relationships between textual prescription and actual practices, and the early modern conception of experience as opposed to knowledge, that presently concern social and cultural historians and historians of science. Drawing attention to non-fictional, didactic texts as opposed to the imaginative and political writings that have been its focus until now, Didactic Literature in England 1500-1800 adds a new dimension to the study of reading, readership and publishing. All in all, it constitutes a substantial contribution to histories of knowledge, of educational processes and practices, and to the history of the book in early modern England. 606 $aDidactic literature, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aEngland$xIntellectual life 615 0$aDidactic literature, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9 701 $aGlaisyer$b Natasha$f1972-$01835005 701 $aPennell$b Sara$01835006 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962240903321 996 $aDidactic literature in England 1500-1800$94410702 997 $aUNINA