The Commonplace Book of Robert Reynes of Acle
Author : Robert Reynes
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Robert Reynes
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Robert Reynes
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Author : Robert Reynes
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Päivi Pahta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 052119329X
The first volume to focus on the communicative aspects of English manuscripts from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how these handwritten texts can be used to analyse the history of language as communication between individuals and groups, and discusses the challenges these documents present to present-day scholars.
Author : Eamon Duffy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 030026514X
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period. “A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, pondered and revered; a subtle, profound book written with passion and eloquence, and with masterly control.”—J. J. Scarisbrick, The Tablet “Revisionist history at its most imaginative and exciting. . . . [An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”—Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal “A magnificent scholarly achievement, a compelling read, and not a page too long to defend a thesis which will provoke passionate debate.”—Patricia Morison, Financial Times “Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated.”—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award
Author : Cameron Louis
Publisher :
Page : 1860 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1976
Category : English language
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Author : Barbara M. Benedict
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691656436
Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing a bridge between the tastes of authors, editors, printers, booksellers, and readers. Making the Modern Reader, the first full treatment of the early modern anthology, is in part a history of the London printing trade as well as of the professionalization of criticism. Benedict thoroughly documents the historical redefinition of the reader: once a member of a communal literary culture, the reader became private and introspective, morally and culturally shaped by choices in reading. She argues that eighteenth-century collections promised the reader that culture could be acquired through the absorption of literary values. This process of cultural education appealed to a middle class seeking to become discriminating consumers of art. By addressing this neglected genre, Benedict contributes a new perspective on the tension between popular and high culture, between the common reader and the elite. This book will interest scholars working in cultural studies and those studying noncanonical texts as well as eighteenth-century literature in general. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Alexandra Gillespie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521889790
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.
Author : David Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139487760
This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English readers often remained to techniques for handling, absorbing and thinking about texts that were rooted in classical antiquity, in Renaissance humanism and in a substantially oral culture. It also reveals how a series of related assumptions about the nature and purpose of reading influenced the roles that literature played in English society in the ages of Addison, Johnson and Byron; how the habits and procedures required by commonplacing affected readers' tastes and so helped shape literary fashions; and how the experience of reading and responding to texts increasingly encouraged literate men and women to imagine themselves as members of a polite, responsible and critically aware public.
Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521841674
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.