WOMEN, READING, AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

First edition. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With four black and white illustrations. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with a little rubbing to the tail of the spine. The text block has two small finger marks and a couple of spots to the fore-edge. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good original dustwrapper, which is mildly faded to the spine, and lightly rubbed to the extremities.

'A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. [...] Edith Snook here makes an original contribution to the ongoing scholarly project of historicizing reading by foregrounding female writers of the early modern period. She explores how women's representations of reading negotiate the dynamic relationship between the public and private spheres and investigates how women might have been affected by changing ideas about literacy, as well as how they sought to effect change in devotional and literary reading practices' (publisher's blurb).