Women's bookscapes in early modern Britain : reading, ownership, circulation
Zusammenfassung: "Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of women's reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive and largely overlooked field. In thirteen probing essays, Women's Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain brings together the work of internationally renowned scholars investigating key questions about early modern British women's figurative, material, and cultural relationships with books. What constitutes evidence of women's readerly engagement? How did women use books to achieve personal, political, religious, literary, economic, social, familial, or communal goals? How does new evidence of women's libraries and book usage challenge received ideas about gender in relation to knowledge, education, confessional affiliations, family ties, and sociability? How do digital tools offer new possibilities for the recovery of information on early modern women readers? The volume's three-part structure highlights case studies of individual readers and their libraries; analyses of readers and readership in the context of their interpretive communities; and new types of scholarly evidence...lists of confiscated books and convent rules, for example...as well as new methodologies and technologies for ongoing research. These essays dismantle binaries of private and public; reading and writing; female and male literary engagement and production; and ownership and authorship. Interdisciplinary, timely, cohesive, and concise, this collection's fresh, revisionary approaches represent substantial contributions to scholarship in early modern material culture; book history and print culture; women's literary and cultural history; library studies; and reading and collecting practices more generally"...
- Location
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- ISBN
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9780472131099
- Dimensions
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24 cm
- Extent
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viii, 304 Seiten
- Edition
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First published
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Illustrationen, Faksimiles
Literaturangaben
Enthält Index
- Classification
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Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft
- Keyword
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Geschichte 1500-1700
Geschichte 1500-1700
Frau
Buchbesitz
Frau
Leseverhalten
Großbritannien
Großbritannien
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (where)
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Ann Arbor
- (who)
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University of Michigan Press
- (when)
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November 2018
- Contributor
- Table of contents
- Rights
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Associated
- Knight, Leah
- White, Micheline
- Sauer, Elizabeth
- University of Michigan Press
Time of origin
- November 2018
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