1st Edition
Didactic Literature in England 1500–1800 Expertise Constructed
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Ranging from music to astronomy, gardening to the Bible, this essay collection is the first multi-disciplinary volume to examine a kind of text that was a staple of early modern English publishing: the how-to book. It tackles a wide range of subjects - grammars, music books, gardening manuals, teach-yourself book-keeping - while highlighting the commonalities of diverse texts as didactic works,... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell; The Bible and didactic literature in early modern England, Scott Mandelbrote; Didactic sources of musical learning in early modern England, Susan Forscher Weiss; 17th-century didactic readers, their literature and ours, Randall Ingram; Polite society and perceptions of the sun and the moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711, Anna Marie E. Roos; French conversation or 'glittering gibberish'? Learning French in 18th-century England, Michèle Cohen; The gardener and the book, Rebecca Bushnell; Deformity's filthy fingers: cosmetics and the plague in Artificiall Embellishments, or Arts best Directions how to preserve Beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665), Christoph Heyl; Richardson's barometer: colonial representation in grammatical texts, Richard Steadman-Jones; Containing the marvellous: instructions to buyers and sellers, Phyllis Whitman Hunter; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Natasha Glaisyer, Department of History, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at The University of York, UK and Sara Pennell, Independent Scholar
'The essays [...] broaden our understanding and deepen our appreciation of an often neglected field.' Contemporary Review
