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Voices and Books in the English Renaissance - A New History of Reading (Hardcover)
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Voices and Books in the English Renaissance - A New History of Reading (Hardcover)
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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
voice-and tones of voice especially-from textual sources. It
explores what happens when we bring voice to text, how vocal tone
realizes or changes textual meaning, and how the literary writers
of the past tried to represent their own and others' voices, as
well as manage and exploit their readers' voices. The volume offers
fresh readings of key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers
including Anne Askew, William Baldwin, and Thomas Nashe. It
rethinks what a printed book can be by searching the printed page
for vocal cues and exploring the neglected role of the voice in the
printing process. Renaissance printed books have often been
misheard and a preoccupation with their materiality has led to a
focus on them as objects. However, Renaissance printed books are
alive with possible voices, but we will not understand this while
we focus on the silent reader.
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