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Author:   Sara Pennell ,  Natasha Glaisyer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138273467

ISBN 10:   1138273465
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell; The Bible and didactic literature in early modern England, Scott Mandelbrote; Didactic sources of musical learning in early modern England, Susan Forscher Weiss; 17th-century didactic readers, their literature and ours, Randall Ingram; Polite society and perceptions of the sun and the moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711, Anna Marie E. Roos; French conversation or 'glittering gibberish'? Learning French in 18th-century England, Michèle Cohen; The gardener and the book, Rebecca Bushnell; 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; Richardson's barometer: colonial representation in grammatical texts, Richard Steadman-Jones; Containing the marvellous: instructions to buyers and sellers, Phyllis Whitman Hunter; Bibliography; Index.

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'The essays [...] broaden our understanding and deepen our appreciation of an often neglected field.' Contemporary Review

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Natasha Glaisyer, Department of History, Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at The University of York, UK and Sara Pennell, Independent Scholar

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