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Writing and Society [[electronic resource] ] : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660
| Writing and Society [[electronic resource] ] : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 |
| Autore | Wheale Nigel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Disciplina |
306.48809420903
820.9358 |
| Soggetto topico |
16th century
17th century Authors and readers English literature English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism Great Britain History Literacy Literature and society Politics and literature Printing Publishers and publishing Written communication |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
WRITING 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'
The 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 '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 '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 The 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 the lower orders |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462616303321 |
Wheale Nigel
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| Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing and Society [[electronic resource] ] : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660
| Writing and Society [[electronic resource] ] : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 |
| Autore | Wheale Nigel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (211 p.) |
| Disciplina |
306.48809420903
820.9358 |
| Soggetto topico |
16th century
17th century Authors and readers English literature English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism Great Britain History Literacy Literature and society Politics and literature Printing Publishers and publishing Written communication |
| ISBN |
1-134-88666-7
1-280-13826-2 1-134-88665-9 9786610138265 0-203-98258-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
WRITING 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'
The 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 '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 '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 The 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 the lower orders |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786054403321 |
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Wheale Nigel
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| Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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