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Title Popular reading in English c. 1400-1600 / Elisabeth Salter.

Publication Info. MANCHESTER : MANCHESTER UNIV Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource
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Series JSTOR EBA.
Contents Popular reading in Englishc. 1400-1600; Half Title page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; 1 Introduction to methods and terms; 2 Religious reading and reform; 3 Making meaning from moral reading; 4 Practical texts: husbandry and carving; 5 Fictional literature: Gawain in a Middle English miscellany; 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book is about reading practice and experience in late medieval and early modern England. It focuses on the kinds of literatures that were more readily available to the widest spectrum of the population. Four case studies from many possibilities have been selected, each examining a particular type of popular literature under the headings 'religious', 'moral', 'practical' and 'fictional'. A key concern of the book is how we might use particular types of evidence in order to understand more about reading practice and experience, so issues of method and approach are discussed fully in the ope.
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Subject Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
Books and reading.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 1066-1485
Subject Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
Chronological Term To 1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
ISBN 1526130645 (electronic book)
9781526130648 (electronic book)