Description: Books and Readers in Early Modern England : Material Studies, Paperback by Andersen, Jennifer (EDT); Sauer, Elizabeth (EDT); Orgel, Stephen (AFT), ISBN 0812217942, ISBN-13 9780812217940, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US 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, commonplacs, 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.
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Book Title: Books and Readers in Early Modern England : Material Studies
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Books and Readers in Early Modern England : Material Studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject: Publishing, Europe / Renaissance, General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Books & Reading, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.7 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Author: Stephen Orgel
Item Length: 8.8 in
Series: Material Texts
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback