Small books and pleasant histories : popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England
Spufford, Margaret1981
Books
Literacy laid villagers open to influences other than those of the pulpit and manor house. This book examines a principal form of affordable print and its role in society and culture at the time.
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London : Methuen, 1981.
Collation:
xxi,275p.,[4]p. of plates : ill., maps,facsims. ; 22cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780416741506
Dewey class:
823.409
Language:
English
Subject:
English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticismWorking class -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th centuryBook industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th centuryPopular literature -- England -- History and criticismChapbooks, English -- History -- 17th centuryLiteracy -- England -- History -- 17th century
BRN:
187356
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