Material Readings of Early Modern Culture

Texts and Social Practices, 1580-1730
2010. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-22352-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in History

This book explores the significance of the physicality of manuscripts and printed early modern texts. Focusing on the material aspects and social practices of texts as a new way of reading meaning, it reassesses the developing relationships between cultures of manuscript and print from the late sixteenth to early eighteenth century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daybell, J.

Hinds, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Material Matters; J.Daybell & P.Hinds PART I: THE MATERIAL LETTER Losing and Regaining the Material Meanings of Epistolary and Gift Texts; C.C.Brown Secret Letters in Early Modern England; J.Daybell Copycopia, or The Uses of Copied Correspondence in Court Culture: A case study; A.Gordon PART II: THE MATERIAL BOOK: PRINT AND SOCIAL PRACTICES OF READING Possessing the Visual: The Materiality of Visual Print Culture in Later Stuart Britain; M.Knights Hackney Poets and Hireling Pamphleteers: Professional Authorship and the Book Trade in Late-Seventeenth-Century London; P.Hinds Early Modern Sermon Paratexts and the Religious Politics of Reading; M.A.Lund Textuality, Privacy and Politics: Katherine Philips's Poems in Manuscript and Print; G.Wright PART III: MATERIAL MANUSCRIPTS Neighbourhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Family's Manuscript Poetry Collection: The Case of British Library Additional MS 25707; A.F.Marotti Casting Off Blanks: Hidden Structures in Early Modern Paper Books; J.Gibson The Early Modern University Manuscript Beyond the University; C.Burlinson 'The art of Numbering well': Late Seventeenth-Century Arithmetic Manuscripts Compiled by Quaker Girls; V.E.Burke Notes and References Index

Über Autor(innen)

CEDRIC C. BROWN Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Reading, UK
VICTORIA E. BURKE Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada
CHRISTOPHER BURLINSON College Lecturer in English at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
JONATHAN GIBSON English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
ANDREW GORDON Co-Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies and Programme Co-ordinator of the Department of English at the University of Aberdeen, UK
MARK KNIGHTS Professor of History, Warwick University, UK
MARY ANN LUND Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester, UK
ARTHUR F. MAROTTI Distinguished Professor of English at Wayne State University, USA
GILLIAN WRIGHT Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham, UK