Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material StudiesJennifer Andersen, Elizabeth Sauer University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012 M07 28 - 312 pages Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. |
Contents
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I Social Contexts for Writing | 21 |
Margins Libraries Prefaces and Bindings | 117 |
III Print Publishing and Public Opinion | 199 |
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