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Encountering ephemera 1500-1800 : scholarship, performance, classroom / edited by Joshua B. Fisher and Rebecca Steinberger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printed ephemera--Great Britain--Congresses.
- Printed ephemera.
- Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Popular literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Congresses.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume addresses two key questions: 1) How can ephemera be understood as a critical category of literary and historical inquiry? and 2) How can ephemera serve pedagogical purposes in the classroom? Each of the essays in Encountering Ephemera 1550-1800: Scholarship, Performance, Classroom addresses these questions by exploring a diverse range of materials as well as periods. The essays collectively work to define ephemera as a complex and multi-faceted critical category in terms of its li...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION - TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF THE EPHEMERAL; CHAPTER ONE - VIRTUAL EPHEMERA: TEACHING ""MOMUMENTAL"" TEXTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE; CHAPTER TWO - THE STUDENT MISCELLANY PROJECT: EXPLORING THE EPHEMERAL IN EARLY MODERN LITERARY CULTURE; CHAPTER THREE - FLOURISH, TUCKET, AND SENNET: CONTEXTUALIZING SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY MODERN MUSICAL SHORTHAND; CHAPTER FOUR - WILL YE HA' A BALLAD?: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE WITH BALLADS; CHAPTER FIVE - ""BLACK BOOKS"": EPHEMERAL PRODUCTION AND EARLY MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS IN ENGLAND
- CHAPTER SIX - RECLAIMING EPHEMERAL TERRITORY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DOMESTIC TRAVEL NARRATIVESCHAPTER SEVEN - BEGINNING WITHT THE EPHEMERAL: READING THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PREFACE; CHAPTER EIGHT - TEACHING EPHEMERA: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE OF CHARITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CLASSROOM; CHAPTER NINE - REDISCOVERING AND RECONSTITUTING THE PAST: THE LEGACY OF THOMAS CORAM'S FOUNDLING HOSPITAL; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6485-4
- OCLC:
- 884726062
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