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Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400
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Pages: 301
Authors: Katharine Breen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Argues that the adaptation of habitus for a universal audience supported the development of a vernacular reading public.
A History of Habit
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Pages: 330
Authors: Tom Sparrow
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-10 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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Voice in Later Medieval English Literature
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: David Lawton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language t
Doubtful Readers
Language: en
Pages: 371
Authors: Erin A. McCarthy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well.
Women's Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Emma O. Bérat
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.