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Small Books and Pleasant Histories - Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England (Paperback)
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Small Books and Pleasant Histories - Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England (Paperback)
Series: Past and Present Publications
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Attention has increasingly turned in recent years from the economic
and agricultural framework of the life of the English villager in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to his or her social and
mental world. Margaret Spufford's interest in literacy, and
particularly in the ability to read, which laid the villager open
to all sorts of external influences other than those coming from
the pulpit and the manor house, has led her in this book to examine
both the spread of reading ability, and one of the principal forms
of cheap print available in the late seventeenth century at a price
within the reach of the day labourer. Many historians, notably
history of education specialists, had not realized the extent of
elementary schooling and the consequent existence of a mass
readership and a popular literature created especially for it
before the Charity School movement. This book provides them with a
radical new emphasis. Dr Spufford's book examines the profits made
by these publishers, the scale of their operations, and the way the
'small books' were distributed throughout the country. It also
examines their content, and compares the English chapbooks with
their French counterparts. By so doing, the author throws light on
one of the influences at work on the seventeenth-century villager,
and illuminates some of the concepts and imagery that formed the
imaginative stock-in-trade of the man behind the plough.
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