Title Speech, print and decorum in Britain, 1600-1750 : studies in social rank and communication / by Elspeth Jajdelska

Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents 1. What did Renaissance readers think they were doing? Speech, print and writing in the Renaissance -- 2. Saucy, impertinent, indecorous : how free was speech from inferiors to superiors between 1600 and 1750? -- 3. The book as proxy : restoration and late seventeenth-century readers -- 4. Speech context as genre : rethinking early modern transgression -- 5. 'Every thing from the press is design'd for the use of the publick' : norm change in the early eighteenth century -- 6. 'The return of the repressed' : stranger readers and social networks -- 7. Who was Johnson's 'common reader'? Reconfiguring rhetoric and performance in the eighteenth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 21, 2016) Subject Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Speech and social status -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Speech and social status -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Speech in literature. Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading. Authors and readers Books and reading -- Social aspects English literature English literature -- Early modern Publishers and publishing Speech and social status Speech in literature Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781472467263 1472467264 9781317051336 1317051335 9781317051343 1317051343 9781317051329 1317051327 9781315610337 1315610337

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