Godly reading
Subtitle: print, manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580-1720
By: Andrew Cambers
Series: Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521764896
Description: "This innovative study explores the history of Puritanism and the history of reading in the long seventeenth century. Drawing on a wide range of significant but understudied source materials, it seeks to advance our understanding of Puritan or 'godly' culture by examining the place of reading within that culture between c.1580 and 1720. In contrast to long-standing claims about the connections between advanced Protestantism and emergent individualism and interiority, the book demonstrates the importance of communal and public forms of reading in the practice of godly piety. Andrew Cambers employs a novel framework, based around the spaces and places of early modern reading, to offer a revised understanding of the nature of Puritanism and of the practice and representation of reading during the period. Moving beyond existing interpretations, Godly Reading opens up fresh discussions and debates about the nature of early modern reading and religion"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Reading and Puritanism in the long seventeenth century; 2. Domestic spaces and private reading; 3. Reading the family; 4. Reading the library; 5. Reading in the parish and the town; 6. Reading in prison; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography.