Glaisyer Natasha - Didactic literature in England, 1500-1800: expertise constructed

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Didactic literature in England, 1500-1800 : expertise constructed
1. Didactic literature, English - History and criticism
2. English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History
and criticism 3. English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
I. Glaisyer, Natasha II. Pennell, Sara
820.9

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Didactic literature in England, 1500-1800 : expertise constructed / edited by Natasha
Glaisyer and Sara Pennell.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-0669-7
1. Didactic literature, English-History and criticism. 2. English literature-Early
modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism. 3. English literature-18th century
History and criticism. 4. Learning and scholarship in literature. 5. England
Intellectual life. 6. Education in literature. I. Glaisyer, Natasha, 1972- II.
Pennell, Sara.
PR408.D49 D53 2003
820.9dc21 2002032629

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-0669-7 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-1-138-27346-7 (pbk)

Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell

Scott Mandelbrote

Susan Forscher Weiss

Randall Ingram

Anna Marie E. Roos

Michle Cohen

Rebecca Bushnell

Christoph Heyl

Richard Steadman-Jones

Phyllis Whitman Hunter

The Whole Psalmes in Four Partes (London, 1563), frontispiece of tenor partbook

John Donne], Poems by J. D. (London, 1633), manuscript index

Frederick Henrik von Hove, An Emblem of the Athenian Society (London, 1692)

Abel Boyer, The Compleat French Master for Ladies and Gentlemen (London, 1729), Dialogue X (excerpt)

Dydymus Mountain [Thomas Hill], The Gardeners Laqyrinth (London, 1608), frontispiece to the Second Part

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Rebecca Bushnell is a Professor of English and Associate Dean for Arts and Letters in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles Theban Plays (Ithaca, 1988); Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theatre in the English Renaissance (Ithaca, 1990); and A Culture of Teaching: Early Modern Humanism in Theory and Practice (Ithaca, 1996).

Michle Cohen is Principal Lecturer in Humanities at Richmond American International University in London. She has been working for several years on masculinity, language and education in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, and has published numerous books and articles on the subject. Her most recent publications include English Masculinities 1660-1800 (with Tim Hitchcock; Harlow, 1999), and The Grand Tour: language, national identity and masculinity, Changing English, 8 (2001). She is currently working on a cultural history of gender and education in England since the eighteenth century.

Natasha Glaisyer is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of York. She is currently writing a book, The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720.

Christoph Heyl is a Lecturer at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt, Frankfurt am Main. His main fields of research are the cultural history and literature of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Having completed a book on the private sphere in eighteenth-century middle-class London (A Passion for Privacy, forthcoming), he is now working on seventeenth-century cabinets of curiosities and related phenomena.

Phyllis Whitman Hunter is Associate Professor of Early American History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She studies consumption and cultural change, and has just published a book on this topic: Purchasing Identify in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780 (Ithaca, 2001).

Randall Ingram is Associate Professor of English at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Having published essays on authors and readers in seventeenth-century England, he is now at work on a book entitled The Making of Seventeenth-Century Books: Producers, Consumers, Materials.

Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Sara Pennell is an independent researcher, with interests in food, medical culture, dissemination of knowledge and domestic conomies in early modern Europe. She is working on a book touching on all these subjects, The Uses of Food in England, 1500-1750.

Anna Marie E. Roos is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She has published articles in the history of early modern astronomy and medicine, as well as a monograph entitled Luminaries in the Natural World: Perceptions of the Sun and Moon in England, 1400-1720 (New York and Bern, 2001). She is currently working on a book project examining the role of early modern English newspapers published from 1690 to 1750 in the dissemination of scientific knowledge.

Richard Steadman-Jones is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, where he is responsible for developing interdisciplinary work spanning the departments of English Language and English Literature. He is particularly interested in European perceptions of non-European languages. His Ph.D. dissertation was concerned with representation of Urdu from the early years of British colonialism in India and is soon to be published by the Philological Society.

Susan Forscher Weiss is the Chair of the Musicology Department at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Bologna Q 18: I-Bologna, Civico Musco Bibliographico Musicale Ms. BolC Q 18 (olim 143) (Peer, Belgium 1998), several articles in leading musicological journals, and of entries in the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

This book arises out of a conference held at Newnham College, Cambridge in July 1998. We would like to thank the Wellcome Trust and the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge for their financial support of the conference. We would also like to thank all the conference participants and in particular, the commentators, Anne Goldgar, Rob Iliffe, James Raven and Rosemary Sweet for their contributions to the discussions we had, and for stimulating our enthusiasm to produce this collection of essays. Vivian Law, who also made invaluable contributions to the sessions as a commentator, sadly died before this book was completed.