Material readings of early modern culture: texts and social practices, 1580-1730

This book explores the significance of the physicality of manuscripts and printed early modern texts. Focusing on the material aspects and social practicesof texts as a new way of reading meaning, it reassesses the developing relationships between cultures of manuscript and print from the late sixteenth to early eighteenth century. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Note on the Contributors - List of Abbreviations - Introduction: Material Matters; J.Daybell & P.Hinds - PART I: THE MATERIAL LETTER - Losing and Regaining the Material Meanings of Epistolary and Gift Texts; C.C.Brown - Secret Letters in Early Modern England; J.Daybell - Copycopia, or The Uses of Copied Correspondence in Court Culture: A case study; A.Gordon - PART II: THE MATERIAL BOOK: PRINT AND SOCIAL PRACTICES OF READING - Possessing the Visual: The Materiality of Visual Print Culture in Later Stuart Britain; M.Knights - Hackney Poets and Hireling Pamphleteers: Professional Authorship and the Book Trade in Late-Seventeenth-Century London; P.Hinds - Early Modern Sermon Paratexts and the Religious Politics of Reading; M.A.Lund - Textuality, Privacy and Politics: Katherine Philips's Poems inManuscript and Print; G.Wright - PART III: MATERIAL MANUSCRIPTS - Neighbourhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Family's Manuscript Poetry Collection: The Case of British Library Additional MS 25707; A.F.Marotti - Casting Off Blanks: Hidden Structures in Early Modern Paper Books; J.Gibson - The Early Modern University Manuscript Beyond the University; C.Burlinson - 'The art of Numbering well': Late Seventeenth-Century Arithmetic Manuscripts Compiled by Quaker Girls; V.E.Burke - Notes and References - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22352-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 24/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés