Tudor Books and Readers - Materiality and the Construction of Meaning

Klappentext New essays by expert historians of the book exploring all aspects of Tudor book culture. Zusammenfassung Offering a comprehensive account of Tudor book culture! these essays by experts in early book history consider the formative years of English printing; book format! marketing! and the reception of books; print! politics! and patronage; and connections between reading and religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction John N. King; 1. Prologue: the first years of the Tudor monarchy and the printing press Lotte Hellinga; Part I. Book Format, Marketing, and the Reception of Books: 2. The myth of the cheap quarto Joseph A. Dane and Alexandra Gillespie; 3. English literary folios 1593-1623: studying shifts in format Steven K. Galbraith; 4. Closing the books: the problematic printing of John Foxe's histories of Henry VII and Henry VIII in his Book of Martyrs (1570) Elizabeth Evenden; Part II. Print, Politics and Patronage: 5. 'This heavenly boke, more precyous than golde': legitimating print in early Tudor England Douglas A. Brooks; 6. Authorial and editorial influence on luxury bookbinding styles in sixteenth-century England Robert J. D. Harding; 7. Print in the time of parliament: 1560-1601 Cynthia Susan Clegg; Part III. Reading and Religion: 8. 'The spider and the bee': the perils of printing for refutation in Tudor England Alexandra Walsham; 9. Reading the woodcuts in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs John N. King; 10. Readers' marks and religious practice: Margaret Hoby's marginalia Andrew Cambers; 11. Books in the bedchamber: religion, accounting, and the library of Richard Stonley Jason Scott-Warren; Select bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: John N. King, Mr John N. King
• Assisted by: John N. King (Editor), Mr John N. King (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521514941
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51494-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600