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Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England

By David Allan

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About the book

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 al...Show more

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9781107421837

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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Commonplace Books and Reading in Georgian England

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Paperback

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