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The Elizabethan top ten : defining print popularity in Early Modern England / edited by Andy Kesson and Emma Smith.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
- Material readings in early modern culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Popular culture and literature--Great Britain--History.
- Popular culture and literature.
- Popular literature--England--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Revisiting Elizabethan literary culture through the lenses of popularity, this collection allows us to view the subject from an angle unfamiliar to modern eyes, but fundamental for early modern readers. Throughout, the aim is to unpack assumptions about the popular, revealing a literary England in which almanacs and proclamations outweigh sonnets and plays, and authors familiar to us are displaced by names now often forgotten.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Towards a Definition of Print Popularity; Part 1 Methodologies; 1 What Is Print Popularity? A Map of the Elizabethan Book Trade; 2 'O Read me for I am of Great Antiquity': Old Books and Elizabethan Popularity; 3 'Rare poemes ask rare friends': Popularity and Collecting in Elizabethan England; 4 Shakespeare's Popularity and the Origins of the Canon; Part 2 The Elizabethan Top Ten; 5 Almanacs and Ideas of Popularity; 6 Print, Popularity, and the Book of Common Prayer; 7 International News Pamphlets
- 8 Spenser's Popular Intertexts 9 Household Manuals; 10 Damask Papers; 11 Sermons; 12 The Psalm Book; 13 Serial Publication and Romance; 14 Mucedorus; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 26, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-315-61596-7
- 1-317-03445-7
- 1-317-03444-9
- 1-4094-4030-3
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