Reading Revolutions - the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England

Reading Revolutions - the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 374
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0300187181
ISBN-13 : 9780300187182
Rating : 4/5 (182 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Reading Revolutions - the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England by : Kevin Sharpe

Download or read book Reading Revolutions - the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England written by Kevin Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book - the first comprehensive study of reading and politics in early modern England - examines how texts of that period were produced and disseminated and how readers interpreted and were influenced by them. Based on the voluminous reading notes of one gentleman, Sir William Drake, the book shows how readers formed radical social values and political ideas as they experienced civil war, revolution, republic and restoration. By analysing the strategies of Drake's reading practices, as well as those of several key contemporaries (including Jonson, Milton and Clarendon), Kevin Sharpe demonstrates how reading in the rhetorical culture of Renaissance England was a political act. He explains how Drake, for example, by reading and rereading classical and humanist works of Tacitus, Machiavelli, Guicciardini and Bacon, became the advocate of dissimulation, intrigue and realpolitik. Authority, Sharpe argues, was experienced, reviewed and criticised not only in the public forum but in the study, on the page and in the imagination, of early modern readers. 'Erudite, intelligent and fascinating ...a wonderful study of a subject central to the intellectual and cultural history of early modern England.' Anthony Grafton Kevin Sharpe was director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and professor of renaissance studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of 'The Personal Rule of Charles I', 'Selling the Tudor Monarchy' and 'Image Wars', all published by Yale University Press.


Reading Revolutions - the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England Related Books

Reading Revolutions - the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Kevin Sharpe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-03-01 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This fascinating book - the first comprehensive study of reading and politics in early modern England - examines how texts of that period were produced and diss
Only Revolutions
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: Mark Z. Danielewski
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Pantheon

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Moving back and forth in American history, a kaleidoscopic novel follows Hailey and Sam, two wayward teenagers, as they crash New Orleans parties, barrel up the
The Book Nobody Read
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Owen Gingerich
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

After three decades of investigation, and after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles across the globe-from Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing-Gingerich
A History of Reading in the West
Language: en
Pages: 492
Authors: Guglielmo Cavallo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Literature has not always been written in the same ways, nor has it been received or read in the same ways over the course of Western civilization. Cavallo (Gre
The Will of the People
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: T. H. Breen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-17 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinar