UID:
almahu_9948022384202882
Format:
1 online resource (xxvii, 855 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139053488 (ebook)
Content:
Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain covers the years between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557 and the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695. In a period marked by deep religious divisions, civil war and the uneasy settlement of the Restoration, printed texts - important as they were for disseminating religious and political ideas, both heterodox and state approved - interacted with oral and manuscript cultures. These years saw a growth in reading publics, from the developing mass market in almanacs, ABCs, chapbooks, ballads and news, to works of instruction and leisure. Atlases, maps and travel literature overlapped with the popular market but were also part of the project of empire. Alongside the creation of a literary canon and the establishment of literary publishing there was a tradition of dissenting publishing, while women's writing and reading became increasingly visible.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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Preface /
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RELIGION AND POLITICS --
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Religious publishing in England 1557-1640 /
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Religious publishing in England 1640-1695 /
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ORAL TRADITIONS AND SCRIBAL CULTURE --
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Oral and scribal texts in early modern England /
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John Donne and the circulation of manuscripts /
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Music books /
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LITERATURE OF THE LEARNED --
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The Latin trade /
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Patronage and the printing of learned works for the author /
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University printing at Oxford and Cambridge /
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Editing the past: classical and historical scholarship /
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Maps and Atlases /
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The literature of travel /
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Science and the book /
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Samuel Hartlib and the commonwealth of learning /
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Ownership: private and public libraries /
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Monastic collections and their dispersal /
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LITERARY CANONS --
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Literature, the playhouse and the public /
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Milton /
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The Restoration poetic and dramatic canon /
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Non-conformist voices and books /
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Women writing and women written /
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VERNACULAR TRADITIONS --
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The Bible trade /
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English law books and legal publishing /
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ABCs, almanacs, ballads, chapbooks, popular piety and textbooks /
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Books for daily life: household, husbandry, behaviour /
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The creation of the periodical press 1620-1695 /
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THE BUSINESS OF PRINT AND THE SPACE OF READING --
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Printing and publishing 1557-1700: constraints on the London book trades /
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The economic context /
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French paper in English books /
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The old English letter foundries /
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Bookbinding /
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Mise-en-page, illustration, expressive form /
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BEYOND LONDON: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, RECEPTION --
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The English provinces /
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Scotland /
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The book in Ireland from the Tudor re-conquest to the battle of the Boyne /
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Wales /
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British books abroad: the Continent /
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British books abroad: the American colonies /
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DISRUPTION AND RESTRUCTURING: THE LATE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BOOK TRADE --
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The stationers and the printing acts at the end of the seventeenth century /
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STATISTICAL APPENDICES --
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Statistical tables /
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Survey of printing presses 1668 /
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Apprentices bound in the Stationers' Company and what became of them 1557-1700 797 /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521661829
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521661829
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