The Practice and Representation of Reading in EnglandJames Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor Cambridge University Press, 27.09.2007 - 313 Seiten How did people read in the past? Where and why did they read? And what did they think readers and reading were for? Drawing on fields as diverse as medieval pedagogy, textual bibliography, history of science, social history and history of the book, this collection of essays highlights the cultural conventions involved in reading, and explores personal reading experiences. The Practice and Representation of Reading in England constitutes a major addition to our understanding of the history of readers and reading. |
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reading literacy and | 22 |
reading and privacy in late medieval | 41 |
John Dee | 62 |
Erasmuss | 77 |
constructing Renaissance texts | 102 |
Popular verses and their readership in the early seventeenth | 125 |
The physiology of reading in Restoration England | 138 |
women reading and | 162 |
arrangements for reading | 175 |
Provincial servants reading in the late eighteenth century | 202 |
prescriptions texts and strategies | 226 |
Women men and the reading of Vanity Fair | 246 |
Charles Dickens and a pathology of the mid | 263 |
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The Practice and Representation of Reading in England James Raven,Helen Small,Naomi Tadmor Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1996 |
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