| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 363 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- England -- History.
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Books and reading -- Social aspects. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Books and reading. |
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Books and reading -- Political aspects -- England -- History.
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Books and reading -- Political aspects. |
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Literature and society -- England -- History.
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Literature and society. |
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Book industries and trade -- England -- History.
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Book industries and trade. |
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England -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1700-1800 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.)
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Zwicker, Steven N.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reading, society, and politics in early modern England. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521824346 (DLC) 2002035078 (OCoLC)51020273 |
| ISBN |
9780511062230 (electronic book) |
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0511062230 (electronic book) |
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0511121350 (electronic book) |
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9780511121357 (electronic book) |
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0511070691 |
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9780511070693 |
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0521824346 |
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9780521824347 |
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