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Reading, society, and politics in early modern England / edited by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker

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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 363 pages)
Additional Creators
Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.) and Zwicker, Steven N.
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English.
Contents
Errata: print, politics and poetry in early modern England -- Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London -- 'Boasting of silence': women readers in a patriarchal state -- Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain -- Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama -- Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain -- Reading bodies -- Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society -- Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism -- The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading -- Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr. Locke's anonymous Essay on government.
Summary
Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
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ISBN
9780511483974 (electronic book)
051148397X (electronic book)
9780511203077 (electronic book)
0511203071 (electronic book)
9780511062230 (electronic book)
0511062230 (electronic book)
9780511070693 (electronic book)
0511070691 (electronic book)
1107137314
9781107137318
1280162651
9781280162657
9786610162659
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9780511121357
0511306180
9780511306181
9780521168519 (paperback)
0521168511
0521824346
9780521824347
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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