Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750: Studies in Social Rank and Communication

ISBN-13: 9780367881177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 238 str.

Elspeth Jajdelska

Opis

Examining issues such as status and speech, ideas of literary and verbal decorum, readership and the history of reading, material books, and the history of speech and performance, Elspeth Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to offer a new account of the changing relationship between speech and writing between 1600 and 1750.

Spis treści

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 What did renaissance readers think they were doing? Speech, print and writing in the renaissance

Chapter 2 Saucy, impertinent, indecorous: how free was speech from inferiors to superiors between 1600 and 1750?

Chapter 3 The book as proxy: restoration and late seventeenth-century readers

Chapter 4 Speech event as genre: rethinking early modern transgression

Chapter 5 ‘Every thing from the press is design’d for the use of the publick’: norm change in the early eighteenth century

Chapter 6 ‘The return of the repressed’: stranger readers and social networks

Chapter 7 Who was Johnson’s ‘common reader’? Reconfiguring rhetoric and performance in the eighteenth century

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

　

O autorze

Elspeth Jajdelska is a Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde, UK.