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vi, 305 p. : ill. |
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Material texts
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
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England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Andersen, Jennifer Lotte.
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Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-
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Orgel, Stephen.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0812236335 (alk. paper) |
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0812217942 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780812217940 |
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9780812204711 (electronic bk.) |
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