Small Books and Pleasant Histories
Subtitle: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England (Past and Present Publications)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 31, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521312189
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; English fiction; English Literature (General); Working class; History; Sociology; English; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Media Studies; Western Europe - General; History / Great Britain; History-Western Europe - General; Social Science / Media Studies; Books And Reading; 17th century; Book industries and trade; Early modern, 1500-1700; England; History and criticism
First sentence: The attention of historians interested in pre-industrial communities and in non-elites within them has only recently slowly turned from the reconstruction of the economic framework of such communities to the much more nebolous and more difficult attempt to recreate the mental world and imagery which such people had at their disposal.