TY - BOOK ID - 110542895 TI - Writing at the origin of capitalism : literary circulation and social change in early modern England PY - 2021 SN - 0198869460 9780198869467 0192640755 9780192640741 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Publishers and publishing - England - History - 16th century KW - Publishers and publishing - England - History - 17th century KW - Books and reading - England - History - 16th century. KW - Books and reading - England - History - 17th century KW - Capitalism and literature KW - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 16th century KW - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 17th century KW - 655.4 <41> KW - 094:820 KW - 094:942 KW - 655.4 <41> Publishing and bookselling in general--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - 655.4 <41> Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - Publishing and bookselling in general--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland KW - 094:942 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië KW - Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië KW - 094:820 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Engelse literatuur KW - Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Engelse literatuur KW - Publishers and publishing KW - Books and reading KW - Great Britain UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:110542895 AB - In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture. Writing at the Origin of Capitalism describes how economic change in early modern England created new patterns of textual production and circulation with lasting consequences for English literature. Synthesizing research in book and media history, including investigations of manuscript and print, with Marxist historical theory, this volume demonstrates that England's transition to capitalism had a decisive impact on techniques of writing, rates of literacy, and modes of reception, and, in turn, on the form and style of texts. Individual chapters discuss the impact of market integration on linguistic standardization and the rise of a uniform English prose; the growth of a popular literary market alongside a national market in cheap commodities; and the decline of literary patronage with the monarchy's loosening grip on trade regulation, among other subjects. Peddlers' routes and price integration, monopoly licenses and bills of exchange, all prove vital for understanding early modern English writing. Each chapter reveals how books and documents were embedded in wider economic processes, and as a result, how the origin of capitalism constituted a revolutionary event in the history of English literature. ER -