Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700

ISBN-13: 9780199251032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 512 str.

Adam Fox

Opis

Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 explores the rich oral culture of early modern England. It focuses upon dialect speech and proverbial wisdom, "old wives' tales" and children's lore, historical legends and local customs, scurrilous versifying and scandalous rumor-mongering. Adam Fox demonstrates the extent to which this vernacular world was fundamentally structured by written and printed sources over the course of the period.

Recenzje

...[a] rich and in many ways groundbreaking book... In short, the importance of this book does not lie as much in its contribution to the complex and increasingly irrelevant debate about the relation between the oral and the written in the early modern period as in the large body of traditional discourse which it has made accessible for the first time in an accurate and well-sourced form.