Books and readers in early modern England material studies /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Andersen, Jennifer Lotte, Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-, Orgel, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.
Series:Material texts
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Table of 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.