| Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning. Edited by John N. King Contributor(s): King, John N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107412552 ISBN-13: 9781107412552 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 028.909 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 290 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The consumption of books is closely intertwined with the material conditions of their production. The Tudor period saw both revolutionary progress in printing technology and the survival of traditional forms of communication from the manuscript era. Offering a comprehensive account of Tudor book culture, these new essays by experts in early book history consider the formative years of English printing; book format, marketing, and the reception of books; print, politics, and patronage; and connections between reading and religion. They challenge the conventional view of the 1557 foundation of the Stationers' Company as an event that marks a shift between older and newer modes of book production, sale, and reading. Both continuity and change led to the gradual development of late medieval book culture into the genuinely early modern book culture that emerged by the death of Queen Elizabeth. |
