Didactic Literature in England 1500–1800: Expertise Constructed

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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, Michele 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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