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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

Series The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 4

Edited by John Barnard, D. F. McKenzie and Maureen Bell

Publication Date 2002

Hardback ISBN-10
052166182x

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521661829

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521661829

Overview

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.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
John Barnard

Religion and Politics

Oral Traditions and Scribal Culture

Literary Canons

Vernacular Traditions

The Business of Print and the Space of Reading

Beyond London: Production, Distribution, Reception

Disruption and Restructuring: the Late Seventeenth-Century Book Trade

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