Books and readers in early modern England [[electronic resource] ] : material studies / / edited by Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer ; with an afterword by Stephen Orgel

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 028/.9/0942
• Soggetto topico: Books and reading - England - History - 16th century; Books and reading - England - History - 17th century; Literature and society - England - History - 16th century; Literature and society - England - History - 17th century; Book industries and trade - England - History - 16th century; Book industries and trade - England - History - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: England Intellectual life 16th century; England Intellectual life 17th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Cultural Studies; History; Library Science and Publishing; Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Altri autori: AndersenJennifer Lotte SauerElizabeth <1964-> OrgelStephen
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Current Trends in the History of Reading I -- JENNIFER ANDERSEN AND ELIZABETH SAUER -- I. Social Contexts for Writing -- Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers 23 -- DAVID SCOTT KASTAN -- Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42 -- PETER STALLYBRASS -- Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy ofMelancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form 80 -- CHRISTOPHER GROSE -- Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text 97 -- ANN HUGHES --II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings -- Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books? II9 -- WILLIAM H. SHERMAN -- Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library 138 -- HEIDI BRAYMAN HACKEL -- Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams 160 -- RANDALL INGRAM -- Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple I77 -- KATHLEEN LYNCH -- III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion -- Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England 201 -- MICHAEL MENDLE -- Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth- -- Century England 217 -- SABRINA A. BARON -- Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243 -- LANA CABLE -- Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers 26x -- ANNA BATTIGELLI -- Afterword: Records of Culture 282 -- STEPHEN ORGEL.
• Sommario/riassunto: Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence-from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings-to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers, texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing influence of public opinion. The work demonstrates that early modern publications appeared in a wide variety of forms-from periodical literature to polemical pamphlets-and reflected the radical transformations occurring at the time in the dissemination of knowledge through the written word. These forms were far more ephemeral, and far more widely available, than modern stereotypes of writing from this period suggest.
• Titolo autorizzato: Books and readers in early modern England
• ISBN: 1-283-89873-X; 0-8122-0471-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779476003321
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