1st Edition
Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750 Studies in Social Rank and Communication
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 What did renaissance readers think they were doing? Speech, print and writing in the renaissance
Chapter 2 Saucy, impertinent, indecorous: how free was speech from inferiors to superiors between 1600 and 1750?
Chapter 3 The book as proxy: restoration and late seventeenth-century readers
Chapter 4 Speech event as genre: rethinking early modern transgression
Chapter 5 ‘Every thing from the press is design’d for the use of the publick’: norm change in the early eighteenth century
Chapter 6 ‘The return of the repressed’: stranger readers and social networks
Chapter 7 Who was Johnson’s ‘common reader’? Reconfiguring rhetoric and performance in the eighteenth century
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Elspeth Jajdelska is a Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde, UK.
