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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.
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.
This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship
on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts
in, and one of the most common forms of manuscript compilation to
survive from, the pre-modern era (c.1550-1800). This is the first
book to collect together the wide variety of scholarly approaches
to pre-modern recipe books written in English, drawing on varying
approaches to reveal their culinary, medical, scientific,
linguistic, religious and material meanings. Ten scholars from the
fields of culinary history, history of medicine and science,
divinity, archaeology and material culture, and English literature
and linguistics contribute to a vibrant mapping of the aspirations
invested in, and uses of, recipes and recipe books. By exploring
areas as various as the knowledge economies of medicine, Anglican
feasting and fasting practices, the material culture of the kitchen
and table, London publishing and concepts of authorship and the
aesthetics of culinary styles, these eleven essays (including a
critical introduction to recipe books and their historiography)
position recipe texts in the wider culture of the sixteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They illuminate their
importance to both their original compilers and users, and modern
scholars and graduate students alike. -- .
Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the
middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English
kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and
strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and
objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the
early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the
construction of domestic relations between husband and wife,
masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders;
and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes.
Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the
middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English
kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and
strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and
objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the
early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the
construction of domestic relations between husband and wife,
masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders;
and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes.
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