Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Daily Dose

From The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home, by Abigail Williams

A SIGN

"It is a sign of the burgeoning orality of reading that recitation culture had become so widespread that it threatened to render its central texts meaningless."

From Chapter 6. Drama and Recitation, Plays in Parts

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