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Books and readers in early modern England : material studies /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Andersen, Jennifer Lotte, Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002.
Series:Material texts.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Current trends in the history of reading / Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer
  • Plays into print: Shakespeare to his earliest readers / David Scott Kastan
  • Books and scrolls: navigating the Bible / Peter Stallybrass
  • Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy of melancholy and the failure of encyclopedic form / Christopher Grose
  • Approaches to Presbyterian print culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as source and text / Ann Hughes
  • What did Renaissance readers write in their books? / William H. Sherman
  • The countess of Bridgewater's London library / Heidi Brayman Hackel
  • Lego Ego: reading seventeenth-century books of epigrams / Randall Ingram
  • Devotion bound: a social history of The temple / Kathleen Lynch
  • Preserving the ephemeral: reading, collecting, and the pamphlet culture of seventeenth-century England / Michael Mendle
  • Licensing readers, licensing authorities in seventeenth-century England / Sabrina A. Baron.
  • Licensing metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the debate over conscience / Lana Cable
  • John Dryden's angry readers / Anna Battigelli
  • Afterword: records of culture / Stephen Orgel.