Writing and society : literacy, print, and politics in Britain, 1590-1660 /

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Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wheale, Nigel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Temas:
1500-1714
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Publishers and publishing > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Written communication > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Literacy > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Printing > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
English Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Politique et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Communication écrite > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern
Literacy
Literature and society
Politics and government
Politics and literature
Printing
Publishers and publishing
Written communication
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1603-1714.
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 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
  • titled nobility: 'the Theatre of Hospitality'
  • gentry: 'to be idle, and live upon the sweat of others'
  • professions and major trades: 'minds ... more thoughtful and full of business'
  • Yeomen: '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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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