Books and readers in early modern England : material studies / edited by Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer ; with an afterword by Stephen Orgel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andersen, Jennifer Lotte.

Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-

Orgel, Stephen.

Series:

Material texts

Material Texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--England--History--16th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--England--History--17th century.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Book industries and trade--England--History--16th century.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--England--History--17th century.

England--Intellectual life--16th century.

England.

England--Intellectual life--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Current Trends in the History of Reading I

JENNIFER ANDERSEN AND ELIZABETH SAUER

I. Social Contexts for Writing

Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers 23

DAVID SCOTT KASTAN

Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42

PETER STALLYBRASS

Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy ofMelancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form 80

CHRISTOPHER GROSE

Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text 97

ANN HUGHES

II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings

Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books? II9

WILLIAM H. SHERMAN

Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library 138

HEIDI BRAYMAN HACKEL

Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams 160

RANDALL INGRAM

Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple I77

KATHLEEN LYNCH

III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion

Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England 201

MICHAEL MENDLE

Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth-

Century England 217

SABRINA A. BARON

Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243

LANA CABLE

Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers 26x

ANNA BATTIGELLI

Afterword: Records of Culture 282

STEPHEN ORGEL.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283898737

128389873X

9780812204711

0812204719

OCLC:

606624117