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Routledge Writing and Society: Literacy, Print and Politics Britain 1590-1660

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Writing and Society offers a comprehensive examination of how rising popular literacy transformed readership and authorship in early modern Britain. This is the first single-volume work to present a year-by-year chronology linking political events directly to cultural production across the period 1590-1660. The Routledge publication combines literary critical theory with historiography, featuring facsimile pages and expert commentary from the era's most influential texts. Readers gain detailed analysis of literacy development across different social statuses, genders and regions throughout Britain, alongside exploration of patronage structures and censorship practices that shaped written culture during this pivotal period in English letters.

Key Features

Writing and Society provides the first single-volume year-by-year chronology connecting political events to cultural production in Britain from 1590-1660.

The book includes facsimile pages with detailed commentary from the most influential texts of the early modern period.

Analysis covers literacy development across different social statuses, genders and regions in Britain during this era.

The Routledge publication examines patronage structures and censorship practices affecting written culture and readership.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
24 June 1999
Listed Since
18 December 2006

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