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Author Spufford, Margaret.

Title Small books and pleasant histories : popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England / Margaret Spufford
Published London : Methuen, 1981

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 W'PONDS  302.23 Spu  AVAILABLE
Description xxi, 275 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents The mental world of the peasant reader -- Elementary education and the acquisition of reading skills -- Direct and indirect evidence for readership of the chapbooks -- The fortunes and the volume of stock of the chapbook publishers -- The distributors: pedlars, hawkers and petty chapmen -- The content of Samuel Pepys's collection and the bibliothèque bleue -- Small merry books: courtship, sex and songs -- Small Godly books: popular religion -- Portraits of society: historical and chivalric novels -- Conclusion -- Appendix The chapbook section of the trade-list of William Thackeray, c. 1689
Notes Includes bibliographical references
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 -- Library.
Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Book industries and trade -- England -- History.
Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Books and reading -- England -- History.
Chapbooks, English -- History and criticism.
Chapbooks, English -- History -- 17th century.
English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Folk literature, English -- History and criticism.
Literacy -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Literacy -- England -- History.
Popular culture -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Popular literature -- England -- History and criticism.
Popular literature -- England.
Street literature -- England -- History and criticism.
Street literature -- England -- History.
Working class -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Working class -- Books and reading -- England.
LC no. 81148427
ISBN 0416741509