Speech, print and decorum in Britain, 1600-1750 : studies in social rank and communication / Elspeth Jajdelska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jajdelska, Elspeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Speech and social status--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Speech and social status.

Speech and social status--Great Britain--History--18th century.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Speech in literature.

Authors and readers--Great Britain--History.

Authors and readers.

Books and reading--Social aspects.

English literature--Early modern.

History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Contents:

What did Renaissance readers think they were doing? : speech, print and writing in the Renaissance

Saucy, impertinent, indecorous : how free was speech from inferiors to superiors between 1600 and 1750?

The book as proxy : Restoration and late seventeenth-century readers

Speech context as genre : rethinking early modern transgression

"Every thing from the press is design'd for the use of the publick" : norm change in the early eighteenth century

"The return of the repressed" : stranger readers and social networks

Who was Johnson's "common reader"? : reconfiguring rhetoric and performance in the eighteenth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472467256

1472467256

OCLC:

929155172