Reading Revolution
Subtitle: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern Europe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780300081527
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; History of ideas, intellectual history; Literacy; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; Renaissance; Social History; History / Great Britain; International Relations - General; 1603-1714; 17th century; Books and reading; Great Britain; History; Political aspects; Politics and government; Politics and literature
Description: "This book - the first comprehensive study of reading and politics in early modern England - examines how texts of that period were produced and disseminated and how readers interpreted and were influenced by them. Based on the voluminous reading notes of one gentleman, Sir William Drake, the book shows how readers formed radical social values and political ideas as they experienced civil war, revolution, republic and restoration."--BOOK JACKET.