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9780521168519

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England

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    9780521168519

  • ISBN10:

    0521168511

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-09-09
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This study ranges over private and public reading in a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities. It locates and charts specific historical moments of change in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts. Reputable contributors cover topics that include the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relationship of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: discovering the Renaissance reader Kevin Sharpe
The Material Text:
Errata: print, politics, and poetry in early modern England
Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London
Reading as Politics:
'Boasting of silence': women readers and the patriarchal state
Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain
Print, Politics and Performance:
Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama
Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century
Reading Physiologies:
Reading bodies
Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society
Reading Texts in Time:
Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism
The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading
Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr Locke's anonymous Essay on Government
Index
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