Machine generated contents note: Current Trends in the History of Reading I
JENNIFER ANDERSEN AND ELIZABETH SAUER
I. Social Contexts for Writing
Chapter 1: Plays into Print: Shakespeare to His Earliest Readers 23
DAVID SCOTT KASTAN
Chapter 2: Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible 42
PETER STALLYBRASS
Chapter 3: Theatrum Libri: Burton's Anatomy ofMelancholy and the Failure of Encyclopedic Form 80
CHRISTOPHER GROSE
Chapter 4: Approaches to Presbyterian Print Culture: Thomas Edwards's Gangraena as Source and Text 97
ANN HUGHES
II. Traces of Reading: Margins, Libraries, Prefaces, and Bindings
Chapter 5: What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Books? II9
WILLIAM H. SHERMAN
Chapter 6: The Countess of Bridgewater's London Library 138
HEIDI BRAYMAN HACKEL
Chapter 7: Lego Ego: Reading Seventeenth-Century Books of Epigrams 160
RANDALL INGRAM
Chapter 8: Devotion Bound: A Social History of The Temple I77
KATHLEEN LYNCH
III. Print, Publishing, and Public Opinion
Chapter 9: Preserving the Ephemeral: Reading, Collecting, and the Pamphlet Culture of Seventeenth-Century England 201
MICHAEL MENDLE
Chapter 10: Licensing Readers, Licensing Authorities in Seventeenth-
Century England 217
SABRINA A. BARON
Chapter 11: Licensing Metaphor: Parker, Marvell, and the Debate over Conscience 243
LANA CABLE
Chapter 12: John Dryden's Angry Readers 26x
ANNA BATTIGELLI
Afterword: Records of Culture 282
STEPHEN ORGEL.