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Subject(s)

• Books and reading—Social aspects—Great Britain—History—17th century [Browse]
• Books and reading—Social aspects—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Publishers and publishing—Great Britain—History—17th century [Browse]
• Publishers and publishing—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• Speech and social status—Great Britain—History—17th century [Browse]
• Speech and social status—Great Britain—History—18th century [Browse]
• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• English literature—18th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Speech in literature [Browse]
• Authors and readers—Great Britain—History [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-228) and index.

Contents

• What did Renaissance readers think they were doing? : speech, print and writing in the Renaissance
• Saucy, impertinent, indecorous : how free was speech from inferiors to superiors between 1600 and 1750?
• The book as proxy : Restoration and late seventeenth-century readers
• Speech context as genre : rethinking early modern transgression
• "Every thing from the press is design'd for the use of the publick" : norm change in the early eighteenth century
• "The return of the repressed" : stranger readers and social networks
• Who was Johnson's "common reader"? : reconfiguring rhetoric and performance in the eighteenth century.

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ISBN

• 9781472467256 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 1472467256 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2015031553

OCLC

929155172

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