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Matthew P. Brown

The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England

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We conventionally understand the book as a vessel for words, a place where the reader goes to have a private experience with written language. But readers' relationships with books are much more complex. In The Pilgrim and the Bee, Matthew P. Brown examines book culture and the rituals of reading in early New England, ranging across almanacs, commonplace books, wonder tales, funeral elegies, sermon notes, conversion relations, and missionary tracts. What emerges is a new understanding of the book at once as a material good, existing within the economies of buying, selling, giving, and receiving; as an object of reverence and a medium for the… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8122-4015-3
  • EAN: 9780812240153
  • Produktnummer: 2713993
  • Verlag: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 288 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.5 cm 608 g
  • Auflage: New
  • Gewicht: 608

Über den Autor


Matthew P. Brown teaches English and is Director of the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa.

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