Books and Readers in Early Modern England : : Material Studies /

Books and Readers in Early Modern England : : Material Studies / / ed. by Elizabeth Sauer, Jennifer Andersen.

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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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Andersen, Jennifer,
Baron, Sabrina A.,
Battigelli, Anna,
Cable, Lana,
Grose, Christopher,
Hackel, Heidi Brayman,
Hughes, Ann,
Ingram, Randall,
Kastan, David Scott,
Lynch, Kathleen,
Mendle, Michael,
Orgel, Stephen,
Sauer, Elizabeth,
Sherman, William H.,
Stallybrass, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Andersen, Jennifer,
Sauer, Elizabeth,
TeilnehmendeR:
Orgel, Stephen.
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2002
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Material Texts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 25 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Current Trends in the History of Reading
  • I. Social Contexts for Writing
  • Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers
  • Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible
  • Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form
  • Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text
  • II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings
  • Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books?
  • Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library
  • Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams
  • Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple
  • III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion
  • Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England
  • Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth- Century England
  • Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience
  • Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers
  • Afterword: Records of Culture
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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