Books and Readers in Early Modern England : Material Studies [1 ed.] 9780812204711, 9780812217940

Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to t

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Books and Readers in Early Modern England : Material Studies [1 ed.]
9780812204711, 9780812217940

Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to t

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In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces t

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This book provides a new perspective on book history, with essays from leading scholars showing how communities of write

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Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we

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This fascinating and lively book provides the first comprehensive discussion of the production, circulation, and use of

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Humanism, in both its rhetoric and practice, attempted to transform the relationships between men that constituted the f

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Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-ce

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In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their p

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A detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household This book is a detailed study of the dom

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In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of

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