Writing and Society

Nigel Wheale lectures in English Studies at Anglia Polytechnic University. He is co-editor of Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum (1991) and The Postmodern Arts.

• Chapter 1 ‘Paper I Make My Friend And Mind'S True Glass’; Chapter 2 Status and Literacy; Chapter 3 ‘Towardness’; Chapter 4 ‘Mechanics in the Suburbs of Literature’; Chapter 5 Censorship And State Formation; Chapter 6 ‘Penny Merriments, Penny Godlinesses’; Chapter 7 ‘Dressed Up With The Flowers Of A Library’; Chapter 8 ‘The Power Of Self At Such Overflowing Times’; Chapter 9 A Constant Register Of Public Facts 1589–1662;

'[This] interdisciplinary study makes an excellent introduction to the period, and a useful overview for those who have tilled these fields. The book is well organised and clearly written and should find a following among students of both English and History.' - David Cressy, Ecclesiastical History