Reading material in early modern England : print, gender, and literacy

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The work Reading material in early modern England : print, gender, and literacy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Reading material in early modern England : print, gender, and literacy

Title remainder

print, gender, and literacy

Statement of responsibility

Heidi Brayman Hackel

Creator

• Brayman Hackel, Heidi

Subject

• Printing -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
• History
• Literacy -- England -- History -- 17th century
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Printing -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Literacy -- England -- History -- 16th century

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History

Language

eng

Summary

• "Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of a wide range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. Heidi Brayman Hackel artues for a history of reading centered on the traces left by merchants and maidens, gentlewomen and servants, adolescents and matrons - precisely those readers whose entry into the print marketplace provoked debate and changed the definition of literacy. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular "ideal" reader of literary theory and the elite male reader of literary history
• This interdisciplinary study draws upon portraiture, prefaces, marginalia, commonplace books, inventories, diaries, letters, and literature (Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Greene, Dekker, Lyly, Jonson, and others). A contribution to literary studies, the history of the book, cultural history, and feminist criticism, this accessible book will also appeal to readers interested in our continuing engagement with print and the evolution of reading material."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

820.9/003

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR428.A8

LC item number

B73 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography