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Title Reading, society, and politics in early modern England / edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 363 pages)
Contents Errata: print, politics and poetry in early modern England -- Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London -- 'Boasting of silence': women readers in a patriarchal state -- Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain -- Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama -- Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain -- Reading bodies -- Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society -- Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism -- The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading -- Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr. Locke's anonymous Essay on government
Summary Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2020)
Subject Books and reading -- Social aspects -- England -- History
Books and reading -- Political aspects -- England -- History
Literature and society -- England -- History
Book industries and trade -- England -- History
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
Book industries and trade
Books and reading -- Political aspects
Books and reading -- Social aspects
Intellectual life
Literature and society
Leser
Leseverhalten
Lezen.
Leesgewoonten.
Boekenproductie.
Sociale aspecten.
SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043298
Subject England
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.)
Zwicker, Steven N
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