Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their s
By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected he
This book ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific hist
A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history.