Print culture Flashcards
When was ‘Pierce Penniless’ published?
1592
What does Anne Bradstreet say in her poem ‘The Author to her Book’ about financial reasons to print?
‘for thy mother, she alas is poor,
Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.’
What does Anne Bradstreet refer to her first collection of poems as in ‘The Author to her Book’?
‘Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain’
What was Anne Bradstreet’s book of poems called, and when was it first published?
‘The Tenth Muse’, 1650
What does Anne Bradstreet say about being judged in print in ‘The Author to her Book’?
The publishers ‘to th’ press trudge, / Where errors were not lessened (all may judge)’
What does Thomas Nashe say about himself in the letter to his printer before ‘Pierce Penniless’?
‘I condemn myself for nothing so much as playing the dolt in print’
How does Pierce cynically characterise the print landscape?
‘every gross-brained idiot is suffered to come into print’
How does Nashe end ‘Pierce Penniless’ by addressing booksellers?
‘let not your shops be infected with any such goose giblets or stinking garbage, as the jigs of newsmongers.’
How does Nashe address the intellectual value vs the material value of pamphlets in ‘Pierce Penniless’?
‘learning (of the ignorant) is rated after the value of the ink and the paper’
What does Thomas Dekker say of print publication in the opening to ‘News from Hell brought from the Devil’s Carrier’
‘To come to the press is more dangerous, than to be pressed to death’
When was ‘News from hell brought by the Devil’s carrier’ published?
1606
What does Milton say about bad books in ‘Areopagitica’?
‘they to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute, to forewarn, and to illustrate.’
What does Samuel Fallon say about the use of personae in late Elizabethan literature?
they ‘dwell in and give life to the social realization of their structures of communication’
When was Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’ published?
1644
What does Francis Bacon say about reading in ‘Of Studies’?
‘Some Books are to be Tasted, Others to be Swallowed, and Some Few to be Chewed and Digested’
What does Streamer in Baldwin’s ‘Beware the Cat’ make and then eat?
A ‘cake’ made of ‘gross meats’
When was ‘Beware the Cat’ written?
1553
What does a line in the margin of ‘Beware the Cat’ say aphoristically about contrasts?
‘Sweet meat must have sour sauce’
What is an example of the marginalia misreading or misinterpreting Streamer’s Oration in ‘Beware the Cat’?
‘[A solitary man is either a God or a beast]’ when Streamer has merely retired to his roo
What phrase of Streamer’s raises an interesting question about the veracity of prose in ‘Beware the Cat’?
‘a story of one piece of mine own experimenting’
What happens to Streamer’s body after he eats the cake in ‘Beware the Cat’?
‘my mouth and nose purged exceedingly’
What gloss in ‘Beware the Cat’ comments on perverse pleasure?
‘[Strange things are delectable]’
What gloss raises questions of medium and message in ‘Beware the Cat’?
‘[Evil communication confoundeth good virtues]’
What ability does Streamer gain after eating the cake in ‘Beware the Cat’?
He ‘could discern all voices, but by means of noises understand none’
What does Streamer say you can do with a reflective glass of water in ‘Beware the Cat’?
‘counterfeit the moon’
What does ‘A Short answere to the boke called Beware the Cat’ call Baldwin’s work in relation to the author?
‘a sick man’s blood’
What gloss seems to satirise claims of veracity in ‘Beware the Cat’?
‘[Experience is an infallible persuader]’
How does Baldwin [the editor] characterise the transcription of speech in ‘Beware the Cat’’s dedication?
‘I doubt whether M. Streamer will be contented that other men plow with his oxen (I mean pen such things as he speaketh)’
How does ‘A Short answere’ characterise speech/writing in ‘Beware the Cat’?
‘Streamer’s excrements’
What does Trudy Ko say about print in relation to popular forms of language and particularly oral tradition?
‘print can also familiarize […] through acts of translation and through textual apparatuses like parentheses and marginal glosses.’
What does Stephen Gosson in his ‘Schoole of Abuse’ say about writers in society?
‘We have in Infinite Poets, and Pipers, and such peevish cattle among us in England… [who] privily encroach uppon everie mans purse.’
How does Milton describe the publication of books pre-censorship, pre-Inquisition in ‘Areopagitica’?
‘the issue of the brain was no more stifled than the issue of the womb’
How does Milton describe reading a wide variety of books, good and bad, in ‘Areopagitica’?
‘promiscuously read’
What is the goal of making books more widely available, according to Milton in ‘Areopagitica?’
‘when not only our seventy elders, but all the Lord’s people, are become prophets.’
What does the subtitle of ‘Dekker his Dreame’ say about interpretation?
‘Which being truly interpreted, is able to comfort the good, and terrify the bad’
How does Anna Reynolds describe the material process of the book trade?
‘a complex network of material recycling in which unsold, rejected, and old sheets and books were reintegrated into the book trade.’
What did the 1566 Star Chamber decree order stationers to do with books found to be ‘unlawful’?
‘destroied or made waste paper’
What is the risk of thinking too materially about early modern texts and reading, according to Richards and Schurink?
It presents early modern reading as ‘reading in parts’
What does ‘Areopagitica’ call a good book?
‘a good book is the life-blood of its master spirit’
