Privacy and print : reading and writing in seventeenth-century England / Cecile M. Jagodzinski.

Author/creator Jagodzinski, Cecile M., 1951-
Format Book
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Description218 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
Protestantism and literature--History. --17th century.
Authors and readers--England. --History. --17th century.
Books and reading--England. --History. --17th century.
Printing--England. --History. --17th century.
Literacy--England. --History. --17th century.
Privacy--England. --History. --17th century.
Authorship--History. --17th century.
Self in literature.
England--Intellectual life. --17th century.

Contents Reading and the creation of the (Protestant) private spirit -- Authoring the private self: reading in seventeenth-century conversion narratives -- "Extasies in letters": reading personal letters in print -- Margaret Cavendish and the virtues of publication -- Discovery, pornography, and the novel: Aphra Behn's Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister.
General noteRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-214) and index.
LCCN 98035586
ISBN0813918391 (cloth : alk. paper)