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Reading Revolution: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern Europe
Reading Revolution The Politics of Reading in Early Modern Europe
Author: Kevin Sharpe
In this book Sharpe charts the reading of one seventeenth-century gentleman, using a spectacular archive (Huntington Library CA, Folger Library DC, London University) of 50 volumes of his reading notes from the 1620s to the 1660s; the book investigates how through his negotiations with books he came to 'fashion' himself socially and politically...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300081527
ISBN-10: 0300081529
Publication Date: 5/2000
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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