Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and LiteracyCambridge University Press, 17.02.2005 - 322 Seiten Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of a wide range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. Heidi Brayman Hackel argues for a history of reading centred on the traces left by merchants and maidens, gentlewomen and servants, adolescents and matrons - precisely those readers whose entry into the print marketplace provoked debate and changed the definition of literacy. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literacy theory and the elite male reader of literacy history. This interdisciplinary study draws upon portraiture, prefaces, marginalia, commonplace books, inventories, diaries, letters and literature (Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Greene, Dekker, Lyly, Jonson and others). A contribution to literary studies, the history of the book, cultural history and feminist criticism, this accessible book will also appeal to readers interested in our continuing engagement with print and the evolution of reading material. |
Inhalt
Towards a material history of reading | 1 |
Impressions from a scribbling age Gestures and habits of reading | 17 |
Framing gentle readers in preliminaries and margins | 69 |
Noting readers of the Arcadia in marginalia and commonplace books | 137 |
Consuming readers Ladies lapdogs and libraries | 196 |
Epilogue | 256 |
A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London The Countess of Bridgewaters London library | 258 |
Bibliography | 282 |
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Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy Heidi Brayman Hackel Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2009 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
annotations Arcadia Argenis argues authors Authorship Ben Jonson Bible Books and Readers Bridgewater's Cambridge University Press catalogue century Chartier closet collection commonplace book compiler contemporary copy Countess Countesse of Pembrokes CSmH RB culture dedicatory epistle discourse discussion Early Modern England early modern readers edition Egerton Elizabeth Elizabethan England English Books entries Erasmus Euphues example extant Faerie Queene female readers Folger STC folio Gabriel Harvey Gender gentle reader Greene's hand haue history of reading household Huntington Library Ibid John John Bridgewater John Dee Jonson Lady Anne Clifford Latin learned letter literacy London Lord marginalia margins Mary Medieval and Renaissance narrative Oxford paratexts passages patron period poems practice prayer prefaces preliminaries printed books printed marginalia printers prose fiction quarto Queene Reader-Response Criticism record Robert romance Saffin scholars Sermon seventeenth-century Shakespeare Shepheardes Calender Sidney's Arcadia silent Spenser textual Thomas trans Treatise verse William women women's reading writing