Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England
Yale University Press, 2000. Hardcover. "In this book Sharpe charts the reading of one seventeenth-century gentleman, using a spectacular archive (Huntington Library CA, Folger Library DC, London University) of 50 volumes of his reading notes from the 1620s to the 1660s; the book investigates how through his negotiations with books he came to 'fashion' himself socially and politically. In doing so he advocates the need for a broader understanding of 'political thought' and civil identity, calling for interdisciplinary study and closer correlation between theory and archival scholarship." Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #8352
ISBN: 0300081529
Octavo, 358 pp. Black cloth. From private collection of Boston-area academic. Bookplate on front pastedown, else Fine. Pages remain clean and unmarked; binding, tight. In handsome dust jacket.
Price: $18.00