Reading, society and politics in early modern England /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Sharpe, Kevin Zwicker, Steven N. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: discovering the Renaissance reader
- Part I. The Material Text
- 1. Errata: print, politics, and poetry in early modern England
- 2. Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London
- Part II. Reading as Politics
- 3. 'Boasting of silence': women readers and the patriarchal state
- 4. Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain
- Part III. Print, Politics and Performance
- 5. Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama
- 6. Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain
- Part IV. Reading Physiologies
- 7. Reading bodies
- 8. Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society
- Part V. Reading Texts in Time
- 9. Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism
- 10. The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading
- 11. Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr Locke's anonymous Essay on Government
- Index