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Didactic Literature in England 1500-1800 - Expertise Constructed (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Didactic Literature in England 1500-1800 - Expertise Constructed (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Ranging from music to astronomy, gardening to the Bible, this essay
collection is the first multi-disciplinary volume to examine a kind
of text that was a staple of early modern English publishing: the
how-to book. It tackles a wide range of subjects - grammars, music
books, gardening manuals, teach-yourself book-keeping - while
highlighting the commonalities of diverse texts as didactic works,
and situating this material in wider intellectual and material
contexts. An introductory essay explores the uses of didactic texts
in early modern culture, evaluates their relationships with other
literary forms, and establishes the significance of such texts
within the cultural history of the period. There follow
contributions by an international group of scholars from a broad
range of disciplines, including the history of science, literature,
lingustics, and musicology. The volume addresses the important
issue of how texts that tend to be regarded today as 'non-literary'
functioned within early modern literature. It also evaluates
relationships between textual prescription and actual practices,
and the early modern conception of experience as opposed to
knowledge, that presently concern social and cultural historians
and historians of science. Drawing attention to non-fictional,
didactic texts as opposed to the imaginative and political writings
that have been its focus until now, Didactic Literature in England
1500-1800 adds a new dimension to the study of reading, readership
and publishing. All in all, it constitutes a substantial
contribution to histories of knowledge, of educational processes
and practices, and to the history of the book in early modern
England.
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