Attention has increasingly turned in recent years from the economic and agricultural
framework of the life of the English villager in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to his …

With the growth of efficient postal service in England and the stimulus of a growing tradition
of informal prose among eighteenth-century men of leisure, the intimate letter reached …

This revised edition of" From Primer to Pleasure" examines the history of children's books in
England and elsewhere from the invention of printing to 1914. Sections and chapters are …

The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early
novel in response to a new understanding of eigtheenth-century Britain. It traces the social …

This book explores the varied vernacular forms and rich oral traditions which were such a
part of popular culture in early modern England. It focuses, in particular, upon dialect speech …

Fairy tales and folktales have long been mainstays of children's literature, celebrated as
imaginatively liberating, psychologically therapeutic, and mirrors of foreign culture. Focusing …

Middle English popular romance is the most audacious and compendious testimony to the
imaginary world of the English Middle Ages. Yet, with few exceptions, it remains under read …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters Series Editor: Marilyn Gaull
This series presents original biographical, critical, and scholarly studies of literary works and …

Encouraged by the response of the avid novel-reading public in early nineteenth-century
England, minor novelists produced a staggering number of volumes that shaped styles …

Very little is known about what it was like to live on the margins of literacy in early modern
England. By far the majority of people in this society were illiterate in some sense. Their …