Samuel Pepys and His Books
Subtitle: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780198732686
Subjects: Books and reading, history; English literature, history and criticism, 18th century; Great britain, intellectual life; Pepys, samuel, 1633-1703; Great britain, history, restoration, 1660-1688
Description: 'Multitude of books' : patterns of reading in Peyps's diary -- Books, education, and self-advancement -- Pepys and news networks in Restoration London -- Reading history in the Restoration -- 'Books of pleasure' : plays, romances, and novels -- Buying books in Restoration London -- Books, manuscripts, gifts : scholarly and international networks -- 'Notes from discourses touching relition' : religious and scientific enquiry -- Libraries and closets : the uses of a book collection.

Uses Pepys's surviving papers to examine reading practices, book collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century.