John Norden s The Surveyor s Dialogue 1618 Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity 1st Edition by Mark Netzloff ISBN 978-0754641278 0754641279

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ISBN 10:  0754641279

ISBN 13:  978-0754641278

Author:  Mark Netzloff

This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden’s The Surveyor’s Dialogue. Norden’s text, a series of dialogues between a fictional surveyor and several interlocutors”including a tenant farmer, an aristocrat landowner, a manorial officer, and a socially mobile land buyer”is remarkable for its unique commentary on the agrarian roots of English capitalism. In his extensive introduction, Mark Netzloff situates the text in relation to a number of early modern contexts. He discusses the use of dialogue and other literary forms in proto-scientific writing and the role of print in the increasing professionalism of early surveyors. Netzloff also examines the impact of capital formation on agrarian and manorial class relations, discussing topics such as popular protest and revolt, cottagers and the rural poor, regionalism and urbanization, and the transformation of the natural environment through deforestation, enclosure, and the appropriation of commons. Alongside a thorough annotation of technical and historical terms, the edition provides a list of textual variants among early modern versions of the text. This critical edition of The Surveyor’s Dialogue constitutes an important contribution to early modern scholarship, and it will be invaluable to scholars from a range of fields, including the history of science, economic and agrarian history, and literary and cultural studies.

Table of contents: 

Front Matter

• Introduction

• Surveying and Social Dialogue

• Manorial Culture

• The Country and the City

• The Text of this Edition

Main Text – The Surveyor’s Dialogue

• Title Page

• Dedicatory Letter to Robert Cecil

• Preface to Readers

• The Author to His Book

• The Contents of the Six Books

Books

1. Book 1

2. Book 2

3. Book 3

4. Book 4

5. Book 5

6. Book 6

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