Author: Glaisyer, Natasha [1972 - ]; & Pennell, Sara; editors:
Title: Didactic Literature in England, 1500-1800: Expertise Constructed
Description: Aldershot [UK], Ashgate Publishing, (2003). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xi,213 pp, A bump to side page-edge.. Textual illustrations.. Rear cover corner heavily bumped. Just Good. ¶ Contains 10 papers. Includes: S. Mandelbrote "The Bible & Didactic Literature in Early Modern England"; S.F. Weiss "Didactic Sources of Musical Learning in Early Modern England"; R. Ingram "17th-Century Didactic Readers, Their Literature, & Ours"; A.M.E. Roos "Polite Society & Perceptions of the Sun & the Moon in the' Athenian Mercury' & the 'British Apollo', 1691-1711"; M. Cohen "French Conversation or 'Glittering Gibberish'? Learning French in 18th-Century England"; R. Bushness "The Gardener & the Book"; C. Heyl "Deformity's Filthy Fingers: Cosmetics & the Plague in 'Artificiall Embelishments, or Arts Best Directions How to Preserve Beauty or Procure it' (Oxford, 1665)"; R. Steadman-Jones " Richardson's Barometer: Colonial Representation in Grammatical Texts"; P. W. Hunter "Containing the Marvellous: Instructions to Buyers & Sellers".

Keywords: English Literary History, Criticism Didactic, Instructional, Educational, Literature, England Learning, Great Britain, Education, Intellectual