Description |
1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION -- TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF THE EPHEMERAL; CHAPTER ONE -- VIRTUAL EPHEMERA: TEACHING ""MOMUMENTAL"" TEXTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE; CHAPTER TWO -- THE STUDENT MISCELLANY PROJECT: EXPLORING THE EPHEMERAL IN EARLY MODERN LITERARY CULTURE; CHAPTER THREE -- FLOURISH, TUCKET, AND SENNET: CONTEXTUALIZING SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY MODERN MUSICAL SHORTHAND; CHAPTER FOUR -- WILL YE HA' A BALLAD?: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE WITH BALLADS; CHAPTER FIVE -- ""BLACK BOOKS"": EPHEMERAL PRODUCTION AND EARLY MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS IN ENGLAND |
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CHAPTER SIX -- RECLAIMING EPHEMERAL TERRITORY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DOMESTIC TRAVEL NARRATIVESCHAPTER SEVEN -- BEGINNING WITHT THE EPHEMERAL: READING THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PREFACE; CHAPTER EIGHT -- TEACHING EPHEMERA: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE OF CHARITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CLASSROOM; CHAPTER NINE -- REDISCOVERING AND RECONSTITUTING THE PAST: THE LEGACY OF THOMAS CORAM'S FOUNDLING HOSPITAL; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
Summary |
This volume addresses two key questions: 1) How can ephemera be understood as a critical category of literary and historical inquiry? and 2) How can ephemera serve pedagogical purposes in the classroom? Each of the essays in Encountering Ephemera 1550-1800: Scholarship, Performance, Classroom addresses these questions by exploring a diverse range of materials as well as periods. The essays collectively work to define ephemera as a complex and multi-faceted critical category in terms of its li.. |
Notes |
Based on a panel session held at the 2004 annual meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) in Orlando, Florida |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Printed ephemera -- Great Britain -- Congresses
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Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Literature & literary studies.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
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Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern
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English literature
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Popular literature
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Printed ephemera
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Fisher, Joshua B
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Steinberger, Rebecca, 1970-
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Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
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ISBN |
9781443864855 |
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1443864854 |
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