Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies

Contents

Contents Current Trends in the History of Reading 1 JENNIFER ANDERSEN AND ELIZABETH SAUER I. Social Contexts for Writing Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeareto His Earliest Readers 23 DAVID SCOTT KASTAN Chapter 2:Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42 PETER STALLYBRASS Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton'sAnatomy of Melancholy 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 RenaissanceReaders Write in Their Books? 119 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 177 KATHLEEN LYNCH V1 C O N T E N T S 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 SeventeenthCentury England 217 SABRINA A. BARON Chapter11:Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243 LANA CABLE Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers 261 ANNA BATTIGELLI Afterword: Records of Culture 282 STEPHEN ORGEL List of Contributors 291 Index 295 ...