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Networking print in Shakespeare's England : influence, agency, and revolutionary change /

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 in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greteman, Blaine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Series:Text technologies.
Subjects:
Early printed books > Social aspects > England > 17th century.
Authors, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Social networks.
Printers > Social networks > England > History > 17th century.
Book industries and trade > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Data processing.
Social networks > England > History > 17th century.
System analysis.
Table of Contents:
  • Methods and data
  • A small new world : fire, infection, and sudden change in the English print network
  • Hubs in the network : Nicholas Okes and the making of infectious information
  • Radical betweenness : Lady Eleanor Davies and Mary Cary
  • Weak ties and the making of a strong poet : John Milton's early publishers
  • Epilogue : future directions in networking the past