Writing and society : literacy, print, and politics in Britain, 1590-1660

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of figures = xi
• Acknowledgemens = xiii
• 1 'Paper I make my Friend and mind's true Glass' : early modern literacy = 1
• Christopher Marlow's new sin = 1
• Deblating early modern literary culture = 9
• 'Vale, soror, anima mea' : reading the moment of writing = 14
• 2 Status and literacy : the qualities of people = 16
• From 'degree' to 'political arithmatic' : mapping social hierarchy = 18
• The titled nobility : 'the Theatre of Hospitality' = 22
• The gentry : 'to be idle, and live upon the swet of others' = 25
• The professions and major trades : 'minds...more thoughtful and full of business' = 28
• Υeomen : 'they that in times past made all France afraid' = 32
• Craftsmen, tradesmen, copyholders : 'Of the fourth sort of men which do not rule' = 33
• Apprentices and servants : 'Seeking service and place' = 37
• Husbandmen, cottagers, labourers, vagrants : literacy at the margins of survival = 38
• 3 'Towardness' : aptitude, gender and rank in early modern education = 40
• Scripture for the boy who drives the plough = 40
• From absey to grammar school = 43
• 'Education is the bringing up of one, not to live alone, but amongst others, because company is our natural cognisance' = 50
• 4 'Mechanics in the Suburbs of Literature' : printing and publishing 1590-1660 = 55
• Printing in renaissance London = 55
• The Worshipful Company of Stationcrs = 57
• 'Assignable productions of the brain' : authorship and copyright = 60
• 'Only for you, only to you' : patronage, dedications, payment = 62
• 'Let not one Brother oppress another. Do as you would be done unto' : printing from revolution to Restoration = 64
• 5 Censorship and state formation : heresy, sedition and the Celtic literary cultures = 69
• 'Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror' : defining early modern censorship = 69
• 'The Stationers' Company, overseer of the intellectual economy = 73
• 'Ireland is but swordland' : literary patronage, censorship and persecution in the Celtic cultures = 79
• 6 'Penny merriments, penny godlinesses' : new writing for new readers = 85
• Literacy and social change : 'More solid Things do not shew the complexion of the Times so well as Ballads and Libels' = 85
• 'To any Reader He or She, It makes no matter what they be' : John Taylor the Water Poet = 87
• The Praise of Hemp Seed : Taylor's inersion of all values = 94
• The hydro-poet, sculler-scholar between cultures = 101
• 7 'Dressed up with the flowers of a Library' : woman reading and writing = 105
• Mistress Hazzard's revelation = 105
• Going astray among the Elizabethans : critical problems in early modern female literacy = 111
• Gendered behaviour in early modern society : conventions and realities = 114
• 'How careful must you be, To be Υour Self' : Lady Anne Clifford's Great Picture = 116
• 8 'The power of self at such over-flowing times' : the politics of literacy = 132
• 'I never read it in any book, nor received it from any mouth' : writing and revolt 1450-1650 = 132
• 'Mob'(1691) : 'The common mass of people ; the lower orders ; the uncultured or illiterate as a class ; the populace, the masser' = 135
• 9 A Constant Register of Public Facts 1589-1662 = 137
• Bibliography = 151
• Further reading = 152
• Notes = 158
• Index = 180