Privacy and print : reading and writing in seventeenth-century England

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Privacy and print : reading and writing in seventeenth-century England

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reading and writing in seventeenth-century England

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Cecile M. Jagodzinski

Creator

• Jagodzinski, Cecile M., 1951-

Subject

• Authorship -- History -- 17th century
• Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• History
• Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Printing -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Privacy -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Protestantism and literature -- History -- 17th century
• Self in literature
• Literacy -- England -- History -- 17th century

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• A midst the other religious, political, and technological changes in seventeenth-century England, the ready availability of printed books was the most significant sign of the disappearance of old ways of thinking. The ability to read granted new independence as the interactions among reader, text, and author moved from the public forums of church and court to the privacy and solitude of the home
• Privacy and Print proposes that the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right, as the very core of individuality, is connected in a complex fashion with the history of reading. Cecile M. Jagodzinski attempts to recover the experience of readers past by examining representations of reading and readers (especially women) in five genres of seventeenth-century literature: devotional books, conversion narratives, personal letters, drama, and the novel. The discussion ranges from the published letters of Charles I and John Donne to Aphra Behn's Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister and Margaret Cavendish's literary activities

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DLC

Dewey number

028/.9/094209032

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR431

LC item number

.J34 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography