| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 199 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in book and print culture |
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Studies in book and print culture.
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| Contents |
1. 'Reader, here you'l plainly see judgement perverted' -- 2. The trials of Strafford and Laud in England's 'sad theater' -- 3. The 'stage-work' of Charles I -- 4. 'Yet we may print the errors of the age' : tyranny on trial -- 5. Trials of authorship and dramas of dissent -- Epilogue -- 'beyond the fifth act' : Milton and Dryden on the restoration stage |
| Summary |
"In conjunction with an evolving print culture, seventeenth-century England experienced a rise of political instability and religious dissent, the closing of the theatres, and the emergence of a middle class |
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Elizabeth Sauer examines how this played out in the nation's book and print industry with an emphasis on performative writings, their materiality, reception, and their extra-judicial function. 'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 challenges traditional readings of literary history, offers new insights into drama and its transgression of boundaries, and proposes a fresh approach to the politics of consensus and contestation that animated seventeenth-century culture and that distinguishes current scholarly debates about this period."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-199) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Books and reading
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Intellectual life
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Literature and society
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Politics and literature
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Buchmarkt
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Lesekultur
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Politischer Konflikt
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Religiöser Konflikt
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Letterkunde.
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Boekenproductie.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Politieke aspecten.
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England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
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England
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442678248 |
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1442678240 |
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