TY  - BOOK
AU  - Claire Bartram
PY  - 2020
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781787074675
TI  - Kentish Book Culture
T2  - Writers, Archives, Libraries and Sociability 1400-1660
DO  - 10.3726/b11032
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114290
N2  - This volume explores the writing practices and book collections of a range of individuals in early modern Kent including monks, a mariner and an apothecary as well as members of the gentry and clergy and urban administrators. In a county with ready access to metropolitan, courtly and continental influences, a vibrant provincial book culture flourished, in which literacy was prized and book ownership widespread. Reinforcing the important social role played by the literate and revealing something of their creative potential, the essays gathered here also uncover an appetite for debate, reflected in the books owned, lent, written and published by the Kentish in the period covered. Underpinning all of this is an enduring culture of sociability, centred around the book as an object to be shared.  Interdisciplinary in approach, this collection brings together specialists in the history of the book, literary scholars, social historians and librarians to explore the nature of authorship and the dynamics of the market for print and manuscript books outside London. It demonstrates the rich potential of regional archival study to extend our understanding of medieval and early modern literature.
KW  - Provincial writers and readers, Interdisciplinary study, Book culture, Book history, Nature of authorship
LA  - English
ER  -