Participatory reading in late-medieval England
Author: Heather Blatt
ISBN: 9781526117991
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year first published: 05 Apr 2018
Pages: 272
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781526117991
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year first published: 05 Apr 2018
Pages: 272
Format: Hardback
This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences' agency, literary culture and media formats. Interactive reading offered writers ways to make readers work to their benefit, even as these practices enabled audiences to make reading work for themselves. -- .