Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600-1750 - Studies in Social Rank and Communication

Informationen zum Autor Elspeth Jajdelska is a Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde! UK. Klappentext Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading! this is an account of the changing relationship between speech! rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. It looks at authors ranging from John Donne and Jonathan Swift! alongside the writings of anonymous merchants! apothecaries and romance authors. Zusammenfassung Examining issues such as status and speech, ideas of literary and verbal decorum, readership and the history of reading, material books, and the history of speech and performance, Elspeth Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to offer a new account of the changing relationship between speech and writing between 1600 and 1750. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Elspeth Jajdelska, Jajdelska Elspeth
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2016
• EAN: 9781472467256
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-6725-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; European History, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Communication Studies, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade