Writing and society : literacy, print, and politics in Britain, 1590-1660 / Nigel Wheale
| Author(s): | Wheale, Nigel |
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| Subjects: | English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--17th century Literature and society--Great Britain--History--17th century Written communication--Great Britain--History--17th century Literacy--Great Britain--History--17th century Printing--Great Britain--History--17th century Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714 |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : Routledge, 1999 |
| LC Classification: | P, PR |
| Table of Contents: | List of figures Acknowledgements 1. 'Paper I make my Friend and mind's true Glass': early modern literacy 1 Christopher Marlowe's new sin 1 Debating early modern literary culture 9 'Vale, soror, anima mea': reading the moment of writing 14 2. Status and literacy: the qualities of people 16 From 'degree' to 'political arithmetic: mapping social hierarchy 18 The titled nobility: 'the Theatre of Hospitality' 22 The gentry: 'to be idle, and live upon the sweat of others' 25 The professions and major trades: 'minds ... more thoughtful and full of business' 28 Yeomen: 'they that in times past made all France afraid' 32 Craftsmen, tradesmen, copyholders: 'Of the fourth sort of men which do not rule' 33 Apprentices and servants: 'Seeking service and place' 37 Husbandmen, cottagers, labourers, vagrants: literacy at the margins of survival 38 3. 'Towardness': aptitude, gender and rank in early modern education 40 Scripture for the boy who drives the plough 40 From absey to grammar school 43 'Education is the bringing up of one, not to live alone, but amongst others, because company is our natural cognisance' 50 4. 'Mechanics in the Suburbs of Literature': printing and publishing 1590-1660 55 Printing in renaissance London 55 The Worshipful Company of Stationers 57 'Assignable productions of the brain': authorship and copyright 60 'Only for you, only to you': patronage, dedications, payment 62 'Let not one Brother oppress another. Do as you would be done unto': printing from revolution to Restoration 64 5. Censorship and state formation: heresy, sedition and the Celtic literary cultures 69 'Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror': defining early modern censorship 69 The Stationers' Company, overseer of the intellectual economy 73 'Ireland is but swordland': literary patronage, censorship and persecution in the Celtic cultures 79 6. 'Penny merriments, penny godlinesses': new writing for new readers 85 Literacy and social change: 'More solid Things do not shew the complexion of the Times so well as Ballads and Libels' 85 'To any Reader He or She, It makes no matter what they be': John Taylor the Water Poet 87 The Praise of Hemp Seed: Taylor's inversion of all values 94 The hydro-poet, sculler-scholar between cultures 101 7. 'Dressed up with the flowers of a Library': women reading and writing 105 Mistress Hazzard's revelation 105 Going astray among the Elizabethans: critical problems in early modern female literacy 111 Gendered behaviour in early modern society: conventions and realities 114 'How careful must you be, To be Your Self': Lady Anne Clifford's Great Picture 116 8. 'The power of self at such over-flowing times': the politics of literacy 132 'I never read it in any book, nor received it from any mouth': writing and revolt 1450-1650 132 'Mob' (1691): 'The common mass of people; the lower orders; the uncultured or illiterate as a class; the populace, the masses' 135 9. A Constant Register of Public Facts 1589-1662 137 Bibliography 151 Further reading 152 Notes 158 Index 180 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 98054317 ISBN: 0415084970 (alk. paper) ISBN: 0415084989 (alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 188 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 40460118 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0415084970 0415084989 |