Writing and Society : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660

ISBN-13: 9780415084987 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 208 str.

Nigel Wheale

Opis

Explores the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. The book provides a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production. This overview of relevant debates in literacy critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The authors describe and analyze: the development of literacy by status; gender and region in Britain; structures of patronage and censorship; the fundamental role of the publishing industry; the relation between elite literary and popular cultures; and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication. The book brings together the materials necessary to understand Elizabethan, Jacobean and Carolean culture in relation to early modern British literacy and cultural politics.

Recenzje

'[This] interdisciplinary study makes an excellent introduction to the period, and a useful overview for those who have tilled these fields. The book is well organised and clearly written and should find a following among students of both English and History.' - David Cressy, Ecclesiastical History

Spis treści

Chapter 1 ‘Paper I Make My Friend And Mind'S True Glass’; Chapter 2 Status and Literacy; Chapter 3 ‘Towardness’; Chapter 4 ‘Mechanics in the Suburbs of Literature’; Chapter 5 Censorship And State Formation; Chapter 6 ‘Penny Merriments, Penny Godlinesses’; Chapter 7 ‘Dressed Up With The Flowers Of A Library’; Chapter 8 ‘The Power Of Self At Such Overflowing Times’; Chapter 9 A Constant Register Of Public Facts 1589–1662;

O autorze

Nigel Wheale lectures in English Studies at Anglia Polytechnic University. He is co-editor of Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum (1991) and The Postmodern Arts.