Books and readers in early modern England
Subtitle: material studies
By: edited by Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer ; with an afterword by Stephen Orgel.
Contributors: Andersen, Jennifer Lotte.; Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-
Series: Material texts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century.; England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.; England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Current Trends in the History of Reading I; title: JENNIFER ANDERSEN AND ELIZABETH SAUER; title: I. Social Contexts for Writing; title: Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers 23; title: DAVID SCOTT KASTAN; title: Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42; title: PETER STALLYBRASS; title: Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy ofMelancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form 80; title: CHRISTOPHER GROSE; title: Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text 97; title: ANN HUGHES; title: II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings; title: Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books? II9; title: WILLIAM H. SHERMAN; title: Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library 138; title: HEIDI BRAYMAN HACKEL; title: Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams 160; title: RANDALL INGRAM; title: Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple I77; title: KATHLEEN LYNCH; title: III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion; title: Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England 201; title: MICHAEL MENDLE; title: Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth-; title: Century England 217; title: SABRINA A. BARON; title: Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243; title: LANA CABLE; title: Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers 26x; title: ANNA BATTIGELLI; title: Afterword: Records of Culture 282; title: STEPHEN ORGEL.