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Author: Jennifer C. Richardson (Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature, Newcastle University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.702kg
ISBN: 9780198809067
ISBN 10: 0198809069
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 29 October 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Richards sees the need to develop a new history of reading altogether, one that will revolutionise how we teach and think about Renaissance literature and its relevance to the present day. The central message that Voices and Books successfully communicates is that the emerging print culture of the English Renaissance did not silence readers but in fact facilitated oral reading. * Penelope Gouk, Renaissance Studies * Highly commended by the DeLong Book History Prize: Richards takes the reader on an intriguing journey in search of the voice within the text, hunting for vocal cues and instances of shared readings which turned books into performance events. Her fascinating and highly original study of the textual soundscapes of the English Reformation and Renaissance remind us that print is not exclusively a visual medium ... After Richards, book historians can no longer neglect the persistent presence of the voice within the culture of print.
Richards sees the need to develop a new history of reading altogether, one that will revolutionise how we teach and think about Renaissance literature and its relevance to the present day. The central message that Voices and Books successfully communicates is that the emerging print culture of the English Renaissance did not silence readers but in fact facilitated oral reading. * Penelope Gouk, Renaissance Studies *
Richards sees the need to develop a new history of reading altogether, one that will revolutionise how we teach and think about Renaissance literature and its relevance to the present day. The central message that Voices and Books successfully communicates is that the emerging print culture of the English Renaissance did not silence readers but in fact facilitated oral reading. * Penelope Gouk, Renaissance Studies * Highly commended by the DeLong Book History Prize: Richards takes the reader on an intriguing journey in search of the voice within the text, hunting for vocal cues and instances of shared readings which turned books into performance events. Her fascinating and highly original study of the textual soundscapes of the English Reformation and Renaissance remind us that print is not exclusively a visual medium ... After Richards, book historians can no longer neglect the persistent presence of the voice within the culture of print. Voices and Books is a deeply learned, wide-ranging, and imaginative book that should shift the way we not only read but hear early modern texts. * Review of English Studies *
Author Information
Jennifer Richards is the Joseph Cowen Chair of English Literature, Newcastle University and the Director of Newcastle University's Humanities Research Institute. She is the author of many articles and several books, including Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature (2003) and Rhetoric: A New Critical Idiom (2007). She is a General Editor of The Complete Work of Thomas Nashe and the lead on The Thomas Nashe Project.
