'Christian notes sound sweetest suffering': birds, books and textual circulation in Sir John Gibson's commonplace book (BL Add 37719).
A growing body of scholarship has worked to recover the vocal dimensions of early modern reading and the effects of aural reading cultures on literary composition. Where these studies have focused on the relationship between the human voice and early modern texts, this article examines how the seven...
| Publicado en: | Seventeenth Century Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 791 - 819 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep/Oct2024
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