Reading Material In Early Modern England
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Reading Material in Early Modern England
Author | : Heidi Brayman Hackel |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2005-02-17 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0521842514 |
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Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literacy theory and the elite male reader of literacy history.
Books and Readers in Early Modern England
Author | : Jennifer Andersen,Elizabeth Sauer |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2012-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812204711 |
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Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to 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 forms—from periodical literature to polemical pamphlets—and 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.
The Immaterial Book
Author | : Sarah Wall-Randell |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780472118779 |
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In romances—Renaissance England’s version of the fantasy novel—characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves. The Immaterial Book examines scenes of reading in important romance texts across genres: Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and The Tempest, Wroth’s Urania, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It offers a response to “material book studies” by calling for a new focus on imaginary or “immaterial” books and argues that early modern romance authors, rather than replicating contemporary reading practices within their texts, are reviving ancient and medieval ideas of the book as a conceptual framework, which they use to investigate urgent, new ideas about the self and the self-conscious mind.
Reading History in Early Modern England
Author | : D. R. Woolf |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521780462 |
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A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.
Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England
Author | : Hannah August |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2022-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000563115 |
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This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early modern London. Focusing on professional plays printed in quarto between 1584 and 1660, the book juxtaposes the implications of material and paratextual evidence with analysis of historical traces of playreading in extant playbooks and manuscript commonplace books. In doing so, it presents more detailed and nuanced conclusions than have previously been enabled by studies focused on works by one author or on a single type of evidence.
Boxes and Books in Early Modern England
Author | : Lucy Razzall |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108831338 |
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Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.
Material Texts in Early Modern England
Author | : Adam Smyth |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108421324 |
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This book combines book history and literary criticism to explore how early modern books were richer things than previously imagined.
Reading Society and Politics in Early Modern England
Author | : Kevin M. Sharpe,Steven N. Zwicker |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521824346 |
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This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.