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Reading History in Early Modern England

A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.

Author: D. R. Woolf

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521780462

Category: History

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A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.
2000 By D. R. Woolf
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Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England

Wendorf, Richard, 'Abandoning the Capital in Eighteenth-Century London', in Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England, ed. by Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp.

Author: Hannah August

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000563115

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 286

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This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early modern London. Focusing on professional plays printed in quarto between 1584 and 1660, the book juxtaposes the implications of material and paratextual evidence with analysis of historical traces of playreading in extant playbooks and manuscript commonplace books. In doing so, it presents more detailed and nuanced conclusions than have previously been enabled by studies focused on works by one author or on a single type of evidence.
2022-04-25 By Hannah August
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The Uses of History in Early Modern England

Reading History in Early Modern England ( Cambridge , 2000 ) , 7. See also F. J. Levy's “ Afterword ” in the present volume . 5. See , for example , F. Smith Fussner , The Historical Revolution , and A. B. Ferguson , Clio Unbound ...

Author: Paulina Kewes

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 0873282191

Category: History

Page: 449

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2006 By Paulina Kewes
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A Cultural History of Early Modern English Cryptography Manuals

Karen Britland, “Reading Between the Lines: Royalist Letters and Encryption in the English Civil Wars,” Critical Quarterly 55, no. ... D.R. Woolf, Reading History in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Author: Katherine Ellison

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781315458205

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 232

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During and after the English civil wars, between 1640 and 1690, an unprecedented number of manuals teaching cryptography were published, almost all for the general public. While there are many surveys of cryptography, none pay any attention to the volume of manuals that appeared during the seventeenth century, or provide any cultural context for the appearance, design, or significance of the genre during the period. On the contrary, when the period’s cryptography writings are mentioned, they are dismissed as esoteric, impractical, and useless. Yet, as this book demonstrates, seventeenth-century cryptography manuals show us one clear beginning of the capitalization of information. In their pages, intelligence—as private message and as mental ability—becomes a central commodity in the emergence of England’s capitalist media state. Publications boasting the disclosure of secrets had long been popular, particularly for English readers with interests in the occult, but it was during these particular decades of the seventeenth century that cryptography emerged as a permanent bureaucratic function for the English government, a fashionable activity for the stylish English reader, and a respected discipline worthy of its own genre. These manuals established cryptography as a primer for intelligence, a craft able to identify and test particular mental abilities deemed "smart" and useful for England’s financial future. Through close readings of five specific primary texts that have been ignored not only in cryptography scholarship but also in early modern literary, scientific, and historical studies, this book allows us to see one origin of disciplinary division in the popular imagination and in the university, when particular broad fields—the sciences, the mechanical arts, and the liberal arts—came to be viewed as more or less profitable.
2016-06-10 By Katherine Ellison
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Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England

Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly ...

Author: Freyja Cox Jensen

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004233218

Category: History

Page: 260

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Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England.
2012-08-03 By Freyja Cox Jensen

Women Reading and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England

Wroth's representation of reading differs from those offered by the female contemporaries discussed in this book. ... For all of these reasons, the history of reading in early modern England should not be written without reference to ...

Author: Edith Snook, Dr

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781351871495

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A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Among the authors and texts considered are Katherine Parr, Lamentation of a Sinner; Anne Askew, The Examinations of Anne Askew; Dorothy Leigh, The Mothers Blessing; Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives; Aemelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; and Mary Wroth, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Attentive to contiguities between representations of reading in print and reading practices found in manuscript culture, this book also examines a commonplace book belonging to Anne Cornwallis (Folger Folger MS V.a.89) and a Passion poem presented by Elizabeth Middleton to Sarah Edmondes (Bod. MS Don. e.17). Edith Snook here makes an original contribution to the ongoing scholarly project of historicizing reading by foregrounding female writers of the early modern period. She explores how women's representations of reading negotiate the dynamic relationship between the public and private spheres and investigates how women might have been affected by changing ideas about literacy, as well as how they sought to effect change in devotional and literary reading practices. Finally, because the activity of reading is a site of cultural conflict - over gender, social and educational status, and the religious or national affiliation of readers - Snook brings to light how these women, when they write about reading, are engaged in structuring the cultural politics of early modern England.
2017-07-05 By Edith Snook, Dr
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Boudica s Odyssey in Early Modern England

7 Daniel Woolf, Reading History in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 14. 8Stuart Piggott, Ancient Britons and the Antiquarian Imagination (London, 1989), p. 14. And see Summit, 'Monuments', p. 3.

Author: Samantha Frénée-Hutchins

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317172956

Category: Literary Criticism

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This diachronic study of Boudica serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives an overview of the ways in which her story was processed and exploited by the different players of the times who wanted to give credence and support to their own belief systems. The author examines the different apparatus of state ideology which processed the social, religious and political representations of Boudica for public absorption and helped form the popular myth we have of Boudica today. By exploring images of the Briton warrior queen across two reigns which witnessed an act of political union and a move from English female rule (under Elizabeth I) to British/Scottish masculine rule (under James VI & I) the author conducts a critical cartography of the ways in which gender, colonialism and nationalism crystallised around this crucial historical figure. Concentrating on the original transmission and reception of the ancient texts the author analyses the historical works of Hector Boece, Raphael Holinshed and William Camden as well as the canonical literary figures of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. She also looks at aspects of other primary sources not covered in previous scholarship, such as Humphrey Llwyd’s Breuiary of Britayne (1573), Petruccio Ubaldini’s Le Vite delle donne illustri, del regno d’Inghilterra, e del regno di Scotia (1588) and Edmund Bolton’s Nero Caesar (1624). Furthermore, she incorporates archaeological research relating to Boudica.
2016-04-15 By Samantha Frénée-Hutchins
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Reading Green in Early Modern England

Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticultural grafting and herbal health care, this book offers a cultural history of a color.

Author: Dr Leah Knight

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 9781409446644

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 176

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Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticultural grafting and herbal health care, this book offers a cultural history of a color. It mines many pages from the period-not literally but tropically, metaphorically green-that cultivate a variety of unexpected meanings of green and the atmosphere and powers it exuded in the early modern world.
2014-03-28 By Dr Leah Knight
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Imagining Early Modern Histories

read in pieces and as a whole, as Adam Fox tells us early modern readers actually read, allowing the reader to follow the ... Roman Invasions: The British History, Protestant Anti-Romanism, and the Historical Imagination in England, ...

Author: Elizabeth Ketner

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134803972

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 272

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Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.
2016-07-15 By Elizabeth Ketner
Literary Criticism

Books and Readers in Early Modern England

relevant to interpreting historical meaning and the kinds of meaning thought to be found in such texts, ... Essays in this volume likewise aim to present discrete moments in the history of reading in early modern England to illustrate ...

Author: Jennifer Andersen

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN: 9780812204711

Category: Literary Criticism

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Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers, texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing influence of public opinion. The work demonstrates that early modern publications appeared in a wide variety of forms—from periodical literature to polemical pamphlets—and reflected the radical transformations occurring at the time in the dissemination of knowledge through the written word. These forms were far more ephemeral, and far more widely available, than modern stereotypes of writing from this period suggest.
2012-07-28 By Jennifer Andersen

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