Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England

✍ Scribed by Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 375
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This study ranges over private and public reading in a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities. It locates and charts specific historical moments of change in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts. Reputable contributors cover topics that include the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relationship of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: discovering the Renaissance reader......Page 13
HUMANISM, PROTESTANTISM AND PRINT......Page 16
PRINT, PRIVACY AND PERSONALITY......Page 22
REPRESENTING READERS......Page 27
READING AS POLITICS......Page 30
READING POSSIBILITIES......Page 35
NOTES......Page 39
PART I The material text......Page 51
CHAPTER ONE Errata: print, politics and poetry in early modern England......Page 53
I......Page 56
II......Page 61
III......Page 66
NOTES......Page 77
I......Page 84
II......Page 89
III......Page 97
IV......Page 101
V......Page 104
NOTES......Page 106
PART II Reading as politics......Page 111
CHAPTER THREE ‘Boasting of silence’: women readers in a patriarchal state......Page 113
NOTES......Page 127
I......Page 134
II......Page 138
III......Page 150
IV......Page 155
V......Page 165
NOTES......Page 167
PART III Print, politics and performance......Page 177
CHAPTER FIVE Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama......Page 179
NOTES......Page 193
I......Page 197
II......Page 200
III......Page 202
IV......Page 208
V......Page 211
VI......Page 216
NOTES......Page 217
PART IV Reading physiologies......Page 225
CHAPTER SEVEN Reading bodies......Page 227
READING AND PHYSIOLOGY......Page 228
THE MEDICAL READING OF POLITICS: FROM CORPUS MYSTICUM TO BODY POLITIC......Page 233
NOTES......Page 250
READING IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE......Page 256
DOING SEEING, WRITING AND READING EXPERIMENTS......Page 261
ISAAC NEWTON AND THE REJECTION OF PERUSAL......Page 268
PRECEDENTS, PROTOCOLS AND PRIORITY......Page 275
NOTES......Page 278
PART V Reading texts in time......Page 285
CHAPTER NINE Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism......Page 287
NOTES......Page 301
CHAPTER TEN The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading......Page 307
NOTES......Page 323
CHAPTER ELEVEN Cato’s retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr Locke’s anonymous Essay…......Page 329
READING THEORY: BENEATH THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FORM......Page 333
CATO’S RETREAT......Page 337
OF FABULA AND HISTORIA......Page 341
REMAINDERS......Page 349
NOTES......Page 350
Index......Page 363