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Reading, society, and politics in early modern England /

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.), Zwicker, Steven N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Errata: print, politics and poetry in early modern England
  • Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London
  • 'Boasting of silence': women readers in a patriarchal state
  • Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain
  • Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama
  • Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain
  • Reading bodies
  • Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society
  • Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism
  • The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading
  • Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr. Locke's anonymous Essay on government.