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Title:

Reading, society, and politics in early modern England / edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

ix, 363 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Books and reading--History.--England--History.
Books and reading--History.--England--History.
Literature and society--England--History.
Book industries and trade--England--History.
England--Intellectual life

Other Authors:

Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.)
Zwicker, Steven N.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Errata: print, politics and poetry in early modern England -- Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London -- 'Boasting of silence': women readers in a patriarchal state -- Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain -- Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama -- Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain -- Reading bodies -- Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society -- Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism -- The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading -- Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr. Locke's anonymous Essay on government.

ISBN:

9780521824347
0521824346

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51020273

LCCN:

2002035078

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)