Author: Cambridge University PressPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Cambridge University Press
Author: Cambridge University PressPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Cambridge University Press, 1696-1712
Author: Donald Francis McKenziePublisher: Cambridge : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 1, Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698
Author: David McKitterickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521308014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
This is the first of three volumes concerning the history of the oldest press in the world,a history that extends from the sixteenth century to the present day.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Author: Richard GamesonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521661829
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain covers the years between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557 and the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695. In a period marked by deep religious divisions, civil war and the uneasy settlement of the Restoration, printed texts - important as they were for disseminating religious and political ideas, both heterodox and state approved - interacted with oral and manuscript cultures. These years saw a growth in reading publics, from the developing mass market in almanacs, ABCs, chapbooks, ballads and news, to works of instruction and leisure. Atlases, maps and travel literature overlapped with the popular market but were also part of the project of empire. Alongside the creation of a literary canon and the establishment of literary publishing there was a tradition of dissenting publishing, while women's writing and reading became increasingly visible.
"Cultures of Whiggism"
Author: David WomersleyPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In the preface to his edition of Shakespeare, Alexander Pope noted that his age was one of Parties, both in Wit and State. Much scholarship has been devoted to the complexities of the political parties of the eighteenth century, but there has been a surprising reluctance to explore what Pope implied were the corollaries of those parties, namely, parties in literature. The essays collected here explore the literary culture that arose from and supported what Pitt the Elder referred to as the great spirit of Whiggism that animated English politics during the eighteenth century. From the prehistory of Whiggism in the court of Charles II to the fractures opened up within it by the French Revolution in the 1790s, the interactions between Whiggish politics and literature are sampled and described in groundbreaking essays that range widely across the fields of eighteenth-century political prose, poetry, and the novel.
Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England
Author: Elizabeth Lane FurdellPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580461191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in an important transitional period in early modern medicine.
Printers and Men of Capital
Author: Rosalind RemerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812217520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Through richly detailed accounts of individual entrepreneurs, including the prominent printer-publisher Mathew Carey, Remer reveals the economic logic behind this distinctive book trade."—The Book
Essays on Epistemological Transformations and Theater History
Author: Mary Beth RosePublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810106857
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Includes essays that focus on the participation of the drama in changing religious and economic systems, along with essays that focus on theater history in the transmission and revision of dramatic sources--Page v.
A History of British Publishing
Author: John FeatherPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134972962
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This comprehensive history (first published in 1987) covers the whole period in which books have been printed in Britain. Though Gutenberg had the edge over Caxton, England quickly established itself in the forefront of the international book trade. The slow process of copying manuscripts gave way to an increasingly sophisticated trade in the printed word which brought original literature, translations, broadsheets and chapbooks and even the Bible within the purview of an increasingly broad slice of society. Powerful political forces continued to control the book trade for centuries before the principle of freedom of opinion was established. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the competition from pirated USA editions - where there were no copyright laws - provided a powerful threat to the trade. This period also saw the rise of remaindering, cheap literature, and many other 'modern' features of the trade. The author surveys all these developments, bringing his history up to the present age.
A History of British Publishing
Author: Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134972970
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description