Voices and Books in the English Renaissance

by Jennifer Richards

Book Overview

Voices and Books in the English Renaissance offers a new history of reading that focuses on the oral reader and the voice- or performance-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of education for boys and girls in Renaissance England, and the importance of training in pronuntiatio (delivery) for oral-aural literary culture. It offers the first attempt to recover the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192882244
• ISBN13: 9780192882240
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"