Samuel Pepys and his Books
Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 June 2015
- ISBN 9780198732686
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 240x162x27 mm
- Weight 646 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 black-and-white halftones; 1 map 0
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Short description:
Samuel Pepys and his Books uses Pepys's diary together with his unpublished papers and other contemporary sources to investigate reading and information exchange in the seventeenth century.
MoreLong description:
Samuel Pepys was a great collector of books, news, and gossip. This study uses his surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late seventeenth century. Offering the first extensive history of reading during the Restoration, it traces developments in the book trade and news transmission at a time when England was the scene of dramatic political and religious upheavals. The investigation goes beyond Pepys's famous diary of the 1660s, employing a variety of sources to explore the role that reading played in Pepys's life and in the lives of his contemporaries. It begins by examining what it meant to be a reader in Restoration London: the skills, the people, and the places involved. Pepys's wide-ranging interests serve as starting points for considering news exchange and the reception of major literary genres in the Restoration. Particular attention is given to conduct books, histories, religious works, and recreational reading (romances, drama, and novels). The appeal that these works held for readers was not always what we might expect -or, indeed, what the authors and publishers had expected. Additional chapters explore the social interactions surrounding information gathering: the ways people acquired oral and written news in London; the experience of book-buying; and the acquisition of manuscript and print through social networks. Analysed alongside other records, Pepys's papers provide unrivalled insights into literary and cultural developments in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Dr Loveman's research has been wide-ranging, and the multifarious details which she has culled from her reading are beautifully integrated into her thematic explorations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
'Multitude of books': patterns of reading in Pepys's diary
Books, education, and self-advancement
Pepys and news networks in Restoration London
Reading history in the Restoration
'Books of pleasure': Plays, romances, and novels
Buying books in Restoration London
Books, manuscripts, gifts: Scholarly and international networks
'Notes from Discourses touching Religion': Religious and scientific enquiry
Libraries and closets: The uses of a book collection
Afterword
