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Privacy and print : reading and writing in seventeenth-century England

A midst the other religious, political, and technological changes in seventeenth-century England, the ready availability of printed books was the most significant sign of the disappearance of old ways of thinking. The ability to read granted new independence as the interactions among reader, text, and author moved from the public forums of church and court to the privacy and solitude of the home
Print Book, English, 1999
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
218 pages ; 24 cm
9780813918396, 0813918391
39391281
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