Small books and pleasant histories : popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England / Margaret Spufford.

London : Methuen, 1981.

xxi,275p.,[4]p. of plates : ill., maps,facsims. ; 22cm.

Includes index.

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.

9780416741506

823.409

English

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