LITERACY IN EVERYDAY LIFE  -  J. Blaak

reading and writing in early modern Dutch diaries

KORTE INHOUD

Until recently, historians of reading have concentrated on book ownership and trying to map out a history of who read what. The reading experience has been a subject more difficult to research. As has been pointed out before, egodocuments can be valuable sources in this case. Following this lead, "Literacy in Everyday Life" focuses upon four early modern Dutch diaries in which readers document their daily life and in which they recount their reading. In the analysis, other ways in which these four readers c...
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2009 Uitgever: Brill 441 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 900417740X ISBN-13: 9789004177406