CONTENTS

List of Plates

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1   Introduction

Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell

2   The Bible and Didactic Literature in Early Modern England

Scott Mandelbrote

3   Didactic Sources of Musical Learning in Early Modern England

Susan Forscher Weiss

4   Seventeenth-Century Didactic Readers, Their Literature, and Ours

Randall Ingram

5   Polite Society and Perceptions of the Sun and the Moon in the Athenian Mercury and the British Apollo, 1691-1711

Anna Marie E. Roos

6   French Conversation or ‘Glittering Gibberish’? Learning French in Eighteenth-Century England

Michèle Cohen

7   The Gardener and the Book

Rebecca Bushnell

8   Deformity’s Filthy Fingers: Cosmetics and the Plague in Artificiall Embellishments) or Arts best Directions how to preserve Beauty or procure it (Oxford, 1665)

Christoph Heyl

9   Richardson’s Barometer: Colonial Representation in Grammatical Texts

Richard Steadman-Jones

10   Containing the Marvellous: Instructions to Buyers and Sellers

Phyllis Whitman Hunter

Bibliography

Index