1st Edition
Writing and Society Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660
By Nigel Wheale
Copyright 1999
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production. This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages... Read more
Chapter 1 ‘Paper I Make My Friend And Mind'S True Glass’; Chapter 2 Status and Literacy; Chapter 3 ‘Towardness’; Chapter 4 ‘Mechanics in the Suburbs of Literature’; Chapter 5 Censorship And State Formation; Chapter 6 ‘Penny Merriments, Penny Godlinesses’; Chapter 7 ‘Dressed Up With The Flowers Of A Library’; Chapter 8 ‘The Power Of Self At Such Overflowing Times’; Chapter 9 A Constant Register Of Public Facts 1589–1662;
Biography
Nigel Wheale lectures in English Studies at Anglia Polytechnic University. He is co-editor of Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum (1991) and The Postmodern Arts.
'[This] interdisciplinary study makes an excellent introduction to the period, and a useful overview for those who have tilled these fields. The book is well organised and clearly written and should find a following among students of both English and History.' - David Cressy, Ecclesiastical History
