Samuel Pepys and His Books - Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703

Samuel Pepys and his Books uses Pepys's diary together with his unpublished papers and other contemporary sources to investigate reading and information exchange in the seventeenth century.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: 'Multitude of books': patterns of reading in Pepys's diary


• 2: Books, education, and self-advancement


• 3: Pepys and news networks in Restoration London


• 4: Reading history in the Restoration


• 5: 'Books of pleasure': Plays, romances, and novels


• 6: Buying books in Restoration London


• 7: Books, manuscripts, gifts: Scholarly and international networks


• 8: 'Notes from Discourses touching Religion': Religious and scientific enquiry


• 9: Libraries and closets: The uses of a book collection


• Afterword

About the author

Kate Loveman is Associate Professor in English Literature 1600-1789 at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Reading Fictions, 1660-1740: Deception in English Literary and Political Culture (2008). Her other publications include articles on book history, eighteenth-century novels, and the introduction of chocolate into England.

Summary

Samuel Pepys and his Books uses Pepys's diary together with his unpublished papers and other contemporary sources to investigate reading and information exchange in the seventeenth century.

Additional text

Loveman's work is a valuable contribution to the history of reading ... a well-written and clearly presented work ... This is a book that will be of great interest to anyone working on the history of reading.

Product details

• Authors: Loveman, Kate Loveman, Kate (Senior Lecturer in English Literatu Loveman, Loveman Kate
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780192856364
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285636-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; England, European History, English, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599