Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Sharpe, Kevin; Zwicker, Steven N.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780521168519
• ISBN-10: 0521168511
• Artikelnr.: 31199779

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements;
Introduction: discovering the Renaissance reader Kevin Sharpe and Steven N.
Zwicker; Part I. The Material Text: 1. Errata: print, politics, and poetry
in early modern England Seth Lerer; 2. Abandoning the capital in
eighteenth-century London Richard Wendorf; Part II. Reading as Politics: 3.
'Boasting of silence': women readers and the patriarchal state Heidi
Brayman Hackel; 4. Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics
in early modern Britain Kevin Sharpe; Part III. Print, Politics and
Performance: 5. Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and
the politics of drama David Scott Kastan; 6. Irrational, impractical and
unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain Joad Raymond;
Part IV. Reading Physiologies: 7. Reading bodies Michael Shoenfeldt; 8.
Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society Adrian Johns; Part V.
Reading Texts in Time: 9. Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism
Joseph Loewenstein; 10. The constitution of opinion and the pacification of
reading Steven N. Zwicker; 11. Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the
question of constitutionalism in Mr Locke's anonymous Essay on Government
Kirsie M. McClure; Index.