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Acts of Reading
. Ed(S): Anderson, Thomas P.; Netzley, Ryan
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Description for Acts of Reading
Hardback. Editor(s): Anderson, Thomas P.; Netzley, Ryan. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Acts of Reading examines how John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments shaped reading and interpretive practice in the early modern period and addresses the impact of recent electronic editions of Foxe’s text on current reading practice and scholarship. The collection draws on history-of-the-book scholarship to make a plea for the centrality of Foxe to any discussion of Renaissance literary history. These essays also productively attend to the relationship between the materiality of books and the conceptual assumptions that govern our engagement with them. The anthology’s focus on digital editions of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs allows it to explore the often conflicted ... Read more
Acts of Reading examines how John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments shaped reading and interpretive practice in the early modern period and addresses the impact of recent electronic editions of Foxe’s text on current reading practice and scholarship. The collection draws on history-of-the-book scholarship to make a plea for the centrality of Foxe to any discussion of Renaissance literary history. These essays also productively attend to the relationship between the materiality of books and the conceptual assumptions that govern our engagement with them. The anthology’s focus on digital editions of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs allows it to explore the often conflicted ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491364
SKU
V9781611491364
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About . Ed(S): Anderson, Thomas P.; Netzley, Ryan
Thomas P. Anderson is assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University. Ryan Netzley is assistant professor of English at Southern Illinois University.
Reviews for Acts of Reading
Acts of Reading offers scholars of Foxe and students new to his work a set of valuable examinations of the Book of Martyrs…. One thing is sure: Those who read this book will help make Professor Tribble's assertion as old fashioned as relying entirely on a bound book to read The Book of Martyrs.
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