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Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750 - Studies in Social Rank and Communication (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750 - Studies in Social Rank and Communication (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading,
Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship
between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws
on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways
that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period,
bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum,
readership, the material text and performance. Jajdelska's
ambitious array of sources includes letters, diaries, paratexts and
genres from cookery books to philosophical discourses. She looks at
authors ranging from John Donne to Jonathan Swift, alongside the
writings of anonymous merchants, apothecaries and romance authors.
Jajdelska argues that Renaissance readers were likely to approach
written and printed documents less as utterances in their own right
and more as representations of past speech or as scripts for future
speech. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, however,
some readers were treating books as proxies for the author's
speech, rather than as representations of it. These adjustments in
the way speech and print were understood had implications for
changes in decorum as the inhibitions placed on lower-ranking
authors in the Renaissance gave way to increasingly open social
networks at the start of the eighteenth century. As a result,
authors from the lower ranks could now publish on topics formerly
reserved for the more privileged. While this apparently egalitarian
development did not result in imagined communities that transcended
class, readers of all ranks did encounter new models of reading and
writing and were empowered to engage legitimately in the
gentlemanly criticism that had once been the reserve of the
cultural elites. Shortlisted for the European Society for the Study
of English (ESSE) book prize 2018
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