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Tables of Contents for Books and Readers in Early Modern England
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Current Trends in the History of Reading
1
23
Jennifer Andersen
Elizabeth Sauer
I. Social Contexts for Writing
Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers
23
19
David Scott Kastan
Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible
42
38
Peter Stallybrass
Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form
80
17
Christopher Grose
Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text
97
22
Ann Hughes
II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings
What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books?
119
19
William H. Sherman
The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library
138
22
Heidi Brayman Hackel
Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams
160
17
Randall Ingram
Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple
177
24
Kathleen Lynch
III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion
Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England
201
16
Michael Mendle
Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth-Century England
217
26
Sabrina A. Baron
Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Mervell, and the Debate over Conscience
243
18
Lana Cable
John Dryden's Angry Readers
261
21
Anna Battigelli
Afterword: Records of Culture
282
9
Stephen Orgel
List of Contributors
291
4
Index
295