04525nam 2200817 450 991081474370332120230510181035.01-5261-3064-510.7765/9781526130648(CKB)3810000000290582(MiAaPQ)EBC5405982(OCoLC)1085610957(MdBmJHUP)muse72856(UkMaJRU)992980106826101631(DE-B1597)658740(DE-B1597)9781526130648(EXLCZ)99381000000029058220200113h20172012 fy| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPopular reading in English c. 1400-1600 /Elisabeth SalterManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2017.©20121 online resource (x, 260 pages) illustrations; digital file(s)version imprimée 9780719077999 Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-255) and index.Introduction to methods and terms -- Religious reading and reform -- Making meaning from moral reading -- Practical texts : husbandry and carving -- Fictional literature : Gawain in a Middle English miscellany -- Conclusion.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 opening chapter. One distinctive element of this book is that it attempts to uncover evidence for the reading practices and experiences of real, rather than ideal, readers, using evidence that is found within the material of a book or manuscript itself, or within the structure of a specific genre of literature. Salter attempts to negotiate a path through a set of methodological and interpretive issues in order to arrive at a better understanding of how people may have read and what they may have read. This, in turn, leads on to how we may interpret the evidence that manuscripts and early printed books provide for the ways that medieval and early modern people engaged with reading. This book will be of interest to academics and research students who study the history of reading, popular culture, literacy, manuscript and print culture, as well as to those interested more generally in medieval and early modern society and culture.Books and readingGreat BritainHistoryTo 1500Books and readingGreat BritainHistory16th centuryEnglish literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismLiteraturemupProse: Non-FictionbicsscLITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralbisachBiography & non-fiction prosethemaGreat BritainIntellectual life16th centuryGreat BritainIntellectual life1066-1485English.early modern England.fictional literature.literary form.literary voice.manuscript.material evidence.moral reading.page layout.popular reading.practical texts.printed book.reading experience.reading practice.religious texts.Books and readingHistoryBooks and readingHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.LiteratureProse: Non-FictionLITERARY CRITICISM / GeneralBiography & non-fiction prose028.9094109024Salter Elisabeth1972-1638936UkMaJRUBOOK9910814743703321Popular reading in English c. 1400-16003981625UNINA