Popular Didactic Literature

Glaisyer, Natasha

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“… Instructional texts were a popular choice with early printers; Glaysier notes that ‘some of the first books printed in England were manuals and handbooks’ ( 510).…”

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Instruction and Information from Manuscript to Print: Some English Literature, 1400–1650

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2013

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This paper considers aspects of the variety of literature concerned with information and instruction that was in circulation in later medieval and early modern England. It looks at the dynamic nature of that literature and at what it can reveal about cultural and social practices as well as ways of reading and engaging with texts and textual genres. It also examines the interface between texts in manuscript and in print, and considers some of the implications that technological innovation had for the spread of information.

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“… Instructional texts were a popular choice with early printers; Glaysier notes that ‘some of the first books printed in England were manuals and handbooks’ ( 510).…”

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Instruction and Information from Manuscript to Print: Some English Literature, 1400–1650

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

2022

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This Handbook is a research-based book that attempts to define the field, and to gesture towards future configurations in the light of developments over the past thirty years. The Handbook will build on and complement existing overviews of early modern women’s writing but will have a more conceptual and theoretical focus in addition to extending historical and critical work. It will also integrate the disciplinary challenges raised by early modern women’s writing more fully into critical work on the Renaissance—again, this differentiates this work from other wide-ranging volumes on the topic. It seeks, through a range of approaches, to ask larger questions about women’s writing and its relationship(s) to writing and culture more generally. Implicitly it questions the category of ‘women’s’ writing, by examining how far gender and constructions of gender inflect authorship, reception, and style, and how we can integrate provisional and partial identifications into our understanding of early modern women’s discourse. We are keen to integrate intersectionality into the analysis of early modern women’s writing, focusing on a range of key issues—region, class, race, ethnic identity, marital status, profession, language. In particular, the chapters will interrogate the degree to which women’s writings and their innovations in fact spearhead a number of key developments in thought and writing over the course of the seventeenth century. The emphasis throughout is on innovation as a response to specific cultural, ideological and sometimes very local conditions.

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Popular Didactic Literature

Cited by 56 publications

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Instruction and Information from Manuscript to Print: Some English Literature, 1400–1650

Instruction and Information from Manuscript to Print: Some English Literature, 1400–1650

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

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