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The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475-1640

By Elizabeth Tebeaux

Book information

Publisher
Baywood Pub Co
Year
1996
ISBN
0895031752, 9780895031754
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16212806 bytes)
Series
Baywood's Technical Communications Series
Pages
254\259
Time added
2015-05-13 12:00:23
Technical correspondence England History English p

Description

Examining books on different topics as these appeared during the Renaissance allows us to see developments in the use of graphics, the shift from orality to textuality, the expansion of knowledge, and rise of literacy, particularly among middle-class women readers, who were an important audience for many of these books. Changes in English Renaissance technical books provide a new, and as yet largely unexplored means of viewing the Renaissance and the dramatic changes that emerged during the 1475-1640 period, the first years of English printing.

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