Material readings of early modern culture : texts and social practices, 1580-1730 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Description:	xviii, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Early modern literature in history Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subject:	Books -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Manuscripts -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Letter writing -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Criticism, Textual. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century. Bibliography, Critical -- Social aspects. Transmission of texts -- Social aspects. Authorship -- Social aspects. Books -- Format. Codicology. Authorship -- Social aspects. Bibliography, Critical -- Social aspects. Books. Books -- Format. Codicology. English literature -- Early modern. Letter writing. Manuscripts. Transmission of texts -- Social aspects. Women and literature. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8211910

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Other authors / contributors:	Daybell, James, 1972- Hinds, Peter.
ISBN:	9780230223523 0230223524
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Material Matters
Section I. The Material Letter
2. Losing and Regaining the Material Meanings of Epistolary and Gift Texts
3. Secret Letters in Elizabethan England
4. Copycopia, or the Place of Copied Correspondence in Manuscript Culture: A Case Study
Section II. The Material Book: Print and Social Practices of Reading
5. Possessing the Visual: The Materiality of Visual Print Culture in Later Stuart Britain
6. 'Hackney Poets and Hireling Pamphleteers': Professional Authorship and the Book Trade in Late-Seventeenth-Century London
7. Early Modern Sermon Paratexts and the Religious Politics of Reading
8. Textuality, Privacy and Politics: Katherine Philips's Poems in Manuscript and Print
Section III. Material Manuscripts
9. Neighbourhood, Social Networks and the Making of a Family's Manuscript Poetry Collection: The Case of British Library, Additional MS, 25707
10. Casting Off Blanks: Hidden Structures in Early Modern Paper Books
11. The Use and Re-Use of Early-Seventeenth-Century Student Notebooks: Inside and Outside the University
12. 'The art of Numbering well': Late-Seventeenth-Century Arithmetic Manuscripts Compiled by Quaker Girls
Index

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