Material readings of early modern culture : texts and social practices, 1580-1730

Folger bibliographic ID: 270958
Folger call number: Z8.G7 M38 2010
Folger holdings ID: 357078

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Material Matters; J.Daybell&_P.Hinds -- Part_i: the Material Letter -- Losing and Regaining the Material Meanings of Epistolary and Gift Texts; C.C.Brown -- Secret Letters in Early Modern England; J.Daybell -- Copycopia, or The Uses of Copied Correspondence in Court Culture: A case study; A.Gordon -- Part_ii: the Material Book: Print and Social Practices of Reading -- Possessing the Visual: The Materiality of Visual Print Culture in Later Stuart Britain; M.Knights -- Hackney Poets and Hireling Pamphleteers: Professional Authorship and the Book Trade in Late-Seventeenth-Century London; P.Hinds -- Early Modern Sermon Paratexts and the Religious Politics of Reading; M.A.Lund -- Textuality, Privacy and Politics: Katherine Philips's Poems in Manuscript and Print; G.Wright -- Part_iii: Material Manuscripts -- Neighbourhood, Social Networks, and the Making of a Family's Manuscript Poetry Collection: The Case of British Library Additional MS 25707; A.F.Marotti -- Casting Off Blanks: Hidden Structures in Early Modern Paper Books; J.Gibson -- The Early Modern University Manuscript Beyond the University; C.Burlinson -- 'The art of Numbering well': Late Seventeenth-Century Arithmetic Manuscripts Compiled by Quaker Girls; V.E.Burke -- Notes and References -- Index

Extended title: Material readings of early modern culture : texts and social practices, 1580-1730 / edited by James Daybell, Peter Hinds

Books Manuscripts Letter writing English literature Women and literature Bibliography, Critical Transmission of texts Authorship Codicology Handschriften Oude drukken

associated with: Daybell, James, 1972-
associated with: Hinds, Peter