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Book SynopsisWriters in sixteenth-century England often kept commonplace books in which to jot down notable fragments encountered during reading or conversation, but few critics have fully appreciated the formative influence this activity had on humanism. Focusing on the discursive practices of "gathering" textual fragments and "framing" or forming, arranging,
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter I. Finding A Place: The Humanist Logic of Gathering and Framing, pg. 12*Chapter II. Common People, Uncommon Words: The Power of Rhetoric, pg. 39*Chapter III. Seed or Goad: Educating the Humanist Subject, pg. 53*Chapter IV. Educational Practice in Early Sixteenth-Century England, pg. 77*Chapter V. Pastime or Profit: Aristocratic and Humanist Ideology, 1520-1550, pg. 93*Chapter VI. Framing the State: William Cecil and the Humanist System, 1558-1598, pg. 116*Chapter VII. "In a net to hold the Wind": Gathering, Framing, and Lyric Subjectivity, 1520-1540, pg. 136*Chapter VIII. Bend or Frame: Lyric Collections and the Dangers of Narrative, 1550-1590, pg. 162*Conclusion, pg. 197*Notes, pg. 201*Index, pg. 265
