| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell -- 2. The Bible and didactic literature in early modern England / Scott Mandelbrote -- 3. Didactic sources of musical learning in early modern England / Susan Forscher Weiss -- 4. Seventeenth-century didactic readers, their literature, and ours / Randall Ingram -- 5. Polite society and perceptions of the sun and the moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711 / Anna Marie E. Roos -- 6. Frenc conversation or 'glittering gibberish'? Learning French in eighteenth-century England / Michèle Cohen -- 7. The gardener and the book / Rebecca Bushnell -- 8. Deformity's filthy fingers : cosmetics and the plague in Artificiall embellishments, or Arts best directions how to preserve beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665) / Christoph Heyl -- 9. Richardson's barometer : colonial representation in grammatical texts / Richard Steadman-Jones -- 10. Containing the marvellous : instructions to buyers and sellers / Phyllis Whitman Hunter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 12, 2017) |
| Subject |
Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Learning and scholarship in literature.
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Education in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Didactic literature, English
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Education in literature
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English literature
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English literature -- Early modern
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Intellectual life
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Learning and scholarship in literature
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043298
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| Subject |
England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glaisyer, Natasha, 1972- editor.
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Pennell, Sara, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351944335 |
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1351944339 |
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9781315257860 |
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1315257866 |
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