Bibliograph

Networking print in Shakespeare's England, influence, agency, and revolutionary change, Blaine Greteman

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Networking print in Shakespeare's England, influence, agency, and revolutionary change, Blaine Greteman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Networking print in Shakespeare's England

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Blaine Greteman

Series statement

Stanford text technologies

Sub title

influence, agency, and revolutionary change

Summary

In Networking Print in Shakespeare's England, Blaine Greteman uses new analytical tools to examine early English print networks and the systemic changes that reshaped early modern literature, thought, and politics. In early modern England, printed books were a technology that connected people-not only readers and writers, but an increasingly expansive community of printers, publishers, and booksellers-in new ways. By pairing the methods of network analysis with newly available digital archives, Greteman aims to change the way we usually talk about authorship, publication, and printing As Greteman reveals, network analysis of the nearly 500,000 books printed in England before 1800 makes it possible to speak once again of a "print revolution," identifying a sudden tipping point at which the early modern print network became a small world where information could spread in new and powerful ways. Along with providing new insights into canonical literary figures like Milton and Shakespeare, data analysis also uncovers the hidden histories of key figures in this transformation who have been virtually, ignored. Both a primer on the power of network analysis and a critical intervention in early modern studies, the book is ultimately an extended meditation on agency and the complexity of action in context

Target audience

adult

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