Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England - Couverture rigide

Sharpe, Kevin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300081529 ISBN 13 : 9780300081527

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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 criticized not only in the public forum but in the study, on the page and in the imagination of early modern readers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kevin Sharpe is professor of history at the University of Southampton and the author of The Personal Rule of Charles I (ISBN 0 300 06596 5, pb. #17.95*), published by Yale University Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300081529
• ISBN 13: 9780300081527
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 370
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible