Reading material in early modern England : print, gender, and literacy / Heidi Brayman Hackel.

Reading material in early modern England : print, gender, and literacy / Heidi Brayman Hackel.

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

xii, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

"Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of a wide range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. Heidi Brayman Hackel artues for a history of reading centered on the traces left by merchants and maidens, gentlewomen and servants, adolescents and matrons - precisely those readers whose entry into the print marketplace provoked debate and changed the definition of literacy. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular "ideal" reader of literary theory and the elite male reader of literary history.

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This interdisciplinary study draws upon portraiture, prefaces, marginalia, commonplace books, inventories, diaries, letters, and literature (Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Greene, Dekker, Lyly, Jonson, and others). A contribution to literary studies, the history of the book, cultural history, and feminist criticism, this accessible book will also appeal to readers interested in our continuing engagement with print and the evolution of reading material."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-315) and index.

1.
Towards a material history of reading
2.
Impressions from a "scribbling age" : gestures and habits of reading
3.
Framing "gentle readers" in preliminaries and margins
4.
Noting readers of the Arcadia in marginalia and commonplace books
5.
Consuming readers : ladies, lapdogs, and libraries
App.
"A catalogue of my ladies bookes at London" : the Countess of Bridgewater's London library.

Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.

PR428.A8 B73 2005

PR428.A8 B73 2005