This volume explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all pervasive. From wealthy readers of 'amator
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Nijmegen, T
This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during ‘the Enlighte