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Books and Readers in Early Modern Englandexamines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidencefrom library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, p...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-, Andersen, Jennifer Lotte
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Boekwezen.
Leesgewoonten.
Buchhandel
Gesellschaft
Literatur
Leser
Literature and society.
Intellectual life.
Books and reading.
Book industries and trade.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Livres > Industrie > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Livres > Industrie > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Book industries and trade > England > History > 17th century.
Book industries and trade > England > History > 16th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 17th century.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
Books and reading > England > History > 17th century.
Books and reading > England > History > 16th century.
Englisch.
England
England.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siecle.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 16e siecle.
England > Intellectual life > 17th century.
England > Intellectual life > 16th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:Books and Readers in Early Modern Englandexamines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidencefrom library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindingsto 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 formsfrom periodical literature to polemical pamphletsand 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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (312 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780812204711

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