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Title Encountering ephemera 1500-1800 : scholarship, performance, classroom / editors, Joshua B. Fisher and Rebecca Steinberger
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) : illustrations
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION -- TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF THE EPHEMERAL; CHAPTER ONE -- VIRTUAL EPHEMERA: TEACHING ""MOMUMENTAL"" TEXTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE; CHAPTER TWO -- THE STUDENT MISCELLANY PROJECT: EXPLORING THE EPHEMERAL IN EARLY MODERN LITERARY CULTURE; CHAPTER THREE -- FLOURISH, TUCKET, AND SENNET: CONTEXTUALIZING SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY MODERN MUSICAL SHORTHAND; CHAPTER FOUR -- WILL YE HA' A BALLAD?: TEACHING SHAKESPEARE WITH BALLADS; CHAPTER FIVE -- ""BLACK BOOKS"": EPHEMERAL PRODUCTION AND EARLY MODERN PLAYWRIGHTS IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER SIX -- RECLAIMING EPHEMERAL TERRITORY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DOMESTIC TRAVEL NARRATIVESCHAPTER SEVEN -- BEGINNING WITHT THE EPHEMERAL: READING THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PREFACE; CHAPTER EIGHT -- TEACHING EPHEMERA: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE OF CHARITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CLASSROOM; CHAPTER NINE -- REDISCOVERING AND RECONSTITUTING THE PAST: THE LEGACY OF THOMAS CORAM'S FOUNDLING HOSPITAL; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary This volume addresses two key questions: 1) How can ephemera be understood as a critical category of literary and historical inquiry? and 2) How can ephemera serve pedagogical purposes in the classroom? Each of the essays in Encountering Ephemera 1550-1800: Scholarship, Performance, Classroom addresses these questions by exploring a diverse range of materials as well as periods. The essays collectively work to define ephemera as a complex and multi-faceted critical category in terms of its li..
Notes Based on a panel session held at the 2004 annual meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS) in Orlando, Florida
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Printed ephemera -- Great Britain -- Congresses
Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism -- Congresses
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Literature & literary studies.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern
English literature
Popular literature
Printed ephemera
Great Britain
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Fisher, Joshua B
Steinberger, Rebecca, 1970-
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
ISBN 9781443864855
1443864854