Books and readers in early modern England  material studies /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer ; with an afterword by Stephen Orgel. 
 - Philadelphia :  University of Pennsylvania Press,  c2002. 
 - vi, 305 p. :  ill. 
 - Material texts .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: Current Trends in the History of Reading I -- JENNIFER ANDERSEN AND ELIZABETH SAUER -- I. Social Contexts for Writing -- Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers 23 -- DAVID SCOTT KASTAN -- Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42 -- PETER STALLYBRASS -- Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy ofMelancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form 80 -- CHRISTOPHER GROSE -- Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text 97 -- ANN HUGHES --II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings -- Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books? II9 -- WILLIAM H. SHERMAN -- Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library 138 -- HEIDI BRAYMAN HACKEL -- Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams 160 -- RANDALL INGRAM -- Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple I77 -- KATHLEEN LYNCH -- III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion -- Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England 201 -- MICHAEL MENDLE -- Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth- -- Century England 217 -- SABRINA A. BARON -- Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243 -- LANA CABLE -- Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers 26x -- ANNA BATTIGELLI -- Afterword: Records of Culture 282 -- STEPHEN ORGEL. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812204711 (electronic bk.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Books and reading--History--England--16th century.<br/>Books and reading--History--England--17th century.<br/>Literature and society--History--England--16th century.<br/>Literature and society--History--England--17th century.<br/>Book industries and trade--History--England--16th century.<br/>Book industries and trade--History--England--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England--Intellectual life--16th century.<br/>England--Intellectual life--17th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Z1003.5.G7  / B69 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>028/.9/0942