Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England
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Attention has increasingly turned in recent years from the economic and agricultural framework of the life of the English villager in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to his or her social and mental world. Margaret Spufford's interest in literacy, and particularly in the ability to read, which laid the villager open to all sorts of external influences other than those coming from the pulpit and the manor house, has led her in this book to examine...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521312183
ISBN13:9780521312189
Release Date:October 1985
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:300 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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17th Century Books & Reading Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies Criticism & Theory England Europe History History & Criticism History of Books Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Media Studies Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks WesternCustomer Reviews
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