Books and Readers in Early Modern England Material Studies Edited
by Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer. Afterword by Stephen
Orgel "A fascinating collection."--"History" "Showcasing an
innovative, interdisciplinary group of essays, "Books and Readers
in Early Modern England" will interest scholars of bibliography,
collections studies, literature, and history. This book should also
prove useful in the classroom. . . . It is only fitting that a book
so productively devoted to the history of textual consumption
should itself appeal to a wide audience."--"Albion." "Books and
Readers in Early Modern England" examines readers, reading, and
publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The
essays draw on an array of documentary evidence--from library
catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia,
commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings--to
explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of
religious dissent, political instability, and cultural
transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and
print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of
reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann
Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and
Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers,
texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the
written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the
formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing
influence of public opinion. The work demonstrates that early
modern publications appeared in a wide variety of forms--from
periodical literature to polemical pamphlets--and reflected the
radical transformations occurring at the time in the dissemination
of knowledge through the written word. These forms were far more
ephemeral, and far more widely available, than modern stereotypes
of writing from this period suggest. Jennifer Andersen teaches
English at California State University, San Bernardino. Elizabeth
Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada. Material
Texts 2001 312 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 25 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1794-0
Paper $29.95s 19.50 World Rights Literature, History, Library
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