Kevin Sharpe / Steven N. Zwicker (eds.)

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Sharpe, Kevin; Zwicker, Steven N.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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. It also charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts during the period. A team of expert contributors cover topics including the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relation of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception. In addition, the volume emphasises the independence of early modern readers and their role in making meaning in an age in which increased literacy equaled social enfranchisement and interpretation was power. Meaning was not simply an authorial act but the work of many hands and processes, from editing, printing, and proofing, to reproducing, distributing, and finally reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780521824347
• ISBN-10: 0521824346
• Artikelnr.: 32943764

Autorenporträt

Kevin Sharpe is fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the English Association. He has authored and edited 11 books, including Remapping Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2000) and Criticism and Compliment (1999).
Steven Zwicker is Elkin Professor of Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He has written widely on seventeenth-century literature and politics, and together with Kevin Sharpe has edited Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution (1998) and Politics of Discourse: The Literature and History of Seventeenth-Century England (1987). His own monographs include Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry: The Arts of Disguise (1984) and Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689 (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements;
Introduction: discovering the Renaissance reader Kevin Sharpe and Steven N.
Zwicker; Part I. The Material Text: 1. Errata: print, politics, and poetry
in early modern England Seth Lerer; 2. Abandoning the capital in
eighteenth-century London Richard Wendorf; Part II. Reading as Politics: 3.
'Boasting of silence': women readers and the patriarchal state Heidi
Brayman Hackel; 4. Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics
in early modern Britain Kevin Sharpe; Part III. Print, Politics and
Performance: 5. Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and
the politics of drama David Scott Kastan; 6. Irrational, impractical and
unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain Joad Raymond;
Part IV. Reading Physiologies: 7. Reading bodies Michael Shoenfeldt; 8.
Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society Adrian Johns; Part V.
Reading Texts in Time: 9. Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism
Joseph Loewenstein; 10. The constitution of opinion and the pacification of
reading Steven N. Zwicker; 11. Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the
question of constitutionalism in Mr Locke's anonymous Essay on Government
Kirsie M. McClure; Index.