Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Plates
  • Ust of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Bible and Didactic Literature in Early Modern England
  • 3 Didactic Sources of Musical Learning in Early Modern England
  • 4 Seventeenth-Century Didactic Readers, Their Literature, and Ours
  • 5 Polite Society and Perceptions of the Sun and the Moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711
  • 6 French Conversation or 'Glittering Gibberish'? Learning French in Eighteenth-Century England
  • 7 The Gardener and the Book
  • 8 Deformity's Filthy Fingers: Cosmetics and the Plague in Artifidall Embellishments, or Arts best Directions how to preserve Beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665)
  • 9 Richardson's Barometer: Colonial Representation in Grammatical Texts
  • 10 Containing the Marvellous: Instructions to Buyers and Sellers
  • Bibliography
  • Index.