Didactic literature in England 1500-1800 : expertise constructed / / edited by Natasha Glaisyer, Sara Pennell

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetto topico: Didactic literature, English - History and criticism; English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: England Intellectual life
• Altri autori: GlaisyerNatasha <1972-> PennellSara
• Note generali: First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Didactic literature in England 1500-1800
• ISBN: 1-138-27346-5; 1-315-25786-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814299303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II