ISBN:
9780415084970
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (211 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Writing and Society : Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660
DDC:
306.48809420903
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Explores the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them
Description / Table of Contents:
WRITING AND SOCIETY Literacy, print and politics in Britain 1590-1660; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 'Paper I make my Friend and mind's true Glass': early modern literacy; Christopher Marlowe's new sin; Debating early modern literary culture; 'Vale,soror, anima mea': reading the moment of writing; 2 Status and literacy: the qualities of people; From 'degree' to 'political arithmetic': mapping social hierarchy; The titled nobility: 'the Theatre of Hospitality'; The gentry: 'to be idle, and live upon the sweat of others'
Description / Table of Contents:
The professions and major trades: 'minds…more thoughtful and full of business'Yeamen: 'they that in times past made all France afraid'; Craftsmen, tradesmen, copyholders: 'Of the fourth sort of men which do not rule'; Apprentices and servants: 'Seeking service and place'; Husbandmen, cottagers, labourers, vagrants: literacy at the margins of survival; 3 'Towardness': aptitude, gender and rank in early modern education Scripture for the boy who drives the plough; Scripture for the boy who drives the plough; From absey to grammar school
Description / Table of Contents:
'Education is the bringing up of one, not to live alone, but amongst others, because company is our natural cognisance'4 'Mechanics in the Suburbs of Literature': printing and publishing 1590-1660; Printing in renaissance London; The Worshipful Company of Stationers; 'Assignable productions of the brain': authorship and copyright; 'Only for you, only to you': patronage, dedications, payment; 'Let not one Brother oppress another. Do as you would be done unto': printing from revolution to Restoration; 5 Censorship and state formation: heresy, sedition and the Celtic literary cultures
Description / Table of Contents:
'Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror': defining early modern censorshipThe Stationers' Company, overseer of the intellectual economy; 'Ireland is but swordland': literary patronage, censorship and persecution in the Celtic cultures; 6 'Penny merriments, penny godlinesses': new writing for new readers; Literacy and social change: 'More solid Things do not shew the complexion of the Times so well as Ballads and Libels'; 'To any Reader He or She, It makes no matter what they be': John Taylor the Water Poet; The Praise of Hemp Seed: Taylor's inversion of all values
Description / Table of Contents:
The hydro-poet, sculler-scholar between cultures7 'Dressed up with the flowers of a Library': women reading and writing; Mistress Hazzard's revelation; Going astray among the Elizabethans: critical problems in early modern female literacy; Gendered behaviour in early modern society: conventions and realities; 'How careful must you be, To be Your Self': Lady Anne Clifford's Great Picture; 8 'The power of self at such over-flowing times': the politics of literacy; 'I never read it in any book, nor received it from any mouth': writing and revolt 1450-1650; 'Mob' (1691): The common mass of people
Description / Table of Contents:
the lower orders
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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