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This book traces affinities between digital and medieval media, exploring how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about increasing literacy, audiences' agency, literary culture and media formats from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from well-known poems of Chaucer and Lydgate to wall texts, banqueting poems and devotional works written by and for women, Participatory reading argues that making readers work offered writers ways to shape their reputations and the futures of their productions. At the same time, the interactive reading practices they promoted enabled audiences to contribute to -- and contest -- writers' burgeoning authority, making books and reading work for everyone.

English literature --- Reading --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History --- Language arts --- Elocution --- Study and teaching --- Literature --- reading --- readers --- digital media --- textuality --- reading history --- Chaucer --- Lydgate --- bodies or embodiment --- time --- movement or mobility --- England --- Geoffrey Chaucer --- John Lydgate --- Manuscript --- Medieval literature

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A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Print delivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monograph-rather, it is a "multigraph," the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of key concepts for the study of print culture, from Anthologies and Binding to Publicity and Taste. Each entry builds on its term in order to resituate print and book history within a broader media ecology throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The central theme is interactivity, in three senses: people interacting with print; print interacting with the non-print media that it has long been thought, erroneously, to have displaced; and people interacting with each other through print. The resulting book will introduce new energy to the field of print studies and lead to considerable new avenues of investigation.

Printing --- Intermediality --- History --- History. --- print, reading, history, historical, author, authorial collaboration, monograph, multigraph, key concepts, cultural studies, culture, books, media, ecology, 18th century, interactions, printing, intermediality, advertising, anthology, binding, catalogs, conversations, engraving, indexes, letters, manuscripts, marking, paper, proliferation, spacing, stages, thickening, ephemerality.

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Dirk Hempel opens his study with an overview of the development of literary societies in Germany, but also in other European countries and in the USA, basing his survey on recent theories from the historical and social sciences on the democratic social phenomenon of the association. In addition, he presents the first typology of the different forms of literary society. The main body of the study is devoted to an examination of numerous literary societies in 19th century Dresden. He enquires into their organisation and active members and the contents of the societies' activities.

Literature --- Middle class --- Bourgeoisie --- Commons (Social order) --- Middle classes --- Social classes --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Societies, etc. --- History --- Social conditions --- Germans --- Societies, etc --- Books and reading --- Dresden (Germany) --- Intellectual life --- Intellectual life. --- Drezno (Germany) --- Dráždʼany (Germany) --- Dresda (Germany) --- Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Germany) --- Drezden (Germany) --- Drježdźany (Germany) --- Dresde (Germany) --- 드레스덴 (Germany) --- Tŭresŭden (Germany) --- Дрезден (Germany) --- 德累斯顿 (Germany) --- Deleisidun (Germany) --- Dresdeno (Germany) --- Дрэздэн (Germany) --- Δρέσδη (Germany) --- Dresdn (Germany) --- Literature - Societies, etc - History - 19th century --- Germans - Books and reading - History - 19th century --- Dresden (Germany) - Intellectual life --- 19th century. --- Dresden. --- Literary societies.

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Avant de se figer comme d'autres, et peut-être plus facilement encore que d'autres, dans des attitudes satisfaites et des conduites convenues, la figure de l'honnête homme est dans son exigence d'origine, au XVIIe siècle, une figure inquiète de la culture : inquiétude vécue non pas dans les affres de la souffrance et la douleur grandiloquente des idéaux ascétiques, mais portée avec gaieté et naturel, dans la discrétion d'un détachement amusé de lui-même - bref, inquiétude ayant rang d'ironie. C'est de cette ironie qu'il est ici question, des formes qu'elle prend dans la considération des livres et des effets qu'elle produit dans leur maniement. Bousculant les habitudes et les représentations établies par l'humanisme savant de la Renaissance, revendiquant le patronage provocateur de Montaigne qui prétendait avoir "peu de pratique avec les livres", l'honnête homme construit un nouveau modèle de bibliothèque né de l'ambition de reconduire toujours le monde hiératique et autoritaire de l'écrit au monde changeant et mobile de la vie. Aussi la "bibliothèque de l'honnête homme" est-elle entendue ici dans un sens large, qui envisage les diverses voies qu'emprunte la résolution du conflit des lettres et du monde : non seulement espace concret et arpentable des livres qu'on range sur les rayons d'une pièce désignée, qu'on classe en catégories (histoire et belles-lettres), qu'on distribue en genres (mémoires, livres de conversations, nouvelles galantes et historiques, etc.), qu'on relie de telle manière de préférence à telle autre, mais aussi métaphore des lectures idéales qu'on se prend à rêver d'être un prolongement naturel de l'entretien de vive voix - lectures menées, selon le mot de Montaigne, "par forme de conférence, non de régence", animées par la recherche d'une communication d'esprit au-delà de la transmission d'un savoir, comme un autre "art de conférer". Bibliothèque réelle et bibliothèque imaginaire à la fois, la bibliothèque de l'honnête homme s'affirme ainsi l'expression d'un rapport au livre bien déterminé, apparu dans les bagages d'une morale aristocratique. Certes les modes et les enjeux de sa formulation évoluent à mesure que se modifient aussi, des années 1630 aux années 1730, les conditions générales de l'expérience propres à chaque génération. Mais sous la diversité des formes adoptées, de la définition d'un nouvel art de lire conçu comme art de l'écoute jusqu'à l'apparition de pratiques inédites de collection, du rapport du lecteur au rapport de l'amateur ou "curieux", ne cesse de s'affirmer et se préciser la nature esthétique de cette relation. Contre la tradition humaniste qui envisageait la bibliothèque avant tout comme un corpus, l'honnête homme en fait d'abord une question de style.

Book history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- France --- Books and reading --- Livres et lecture --- History --- Histoire --- Intellectual life --- 027.1 <44> --- 840 "16" --- 095 <44> --- Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Frankrijk --- Franse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Merkwaardige boekbanden--Frankrijk --- 095 <44> Merkwaardige boekbanden--Frankrijk --- 840 "16" Franse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 027.1 <44> Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Frankrijk --- Book collecting --- Private libraries --- Home libraries --- Libraries, Private --- Libraries --- Book collectors --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Bibliophily --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- 16th century --- 17th century --- History. --- Library collection - Reading - Book history - France - 17th century. --- Books and reading - History --- France - Intellectual life - 17th century --- Honnete homme --- Classicisme --- Bibliotheques francaises --- Bibliotheques --- 17e siecle --- 18e siecle

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This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture in medieval Britain and their representation within it. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English and Welsh as well as Latin, and addresses issues including orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the question of the levels of literacy attained by women, and contemporary attitudes to their acquisition of such skills, as well as the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers. It also examines the representation of women within different literary genres, both secular and religious - their possession or lack of power, and their roles as lovers, mothers and saints. This is the first such volume to focus on these issues within the specific framework of late medieval Britain, and as such constitutes a unique contribution to the study of women and medieval literary history.

Anglo-Norman literature --- British literature --- English literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Books and reading --- History. --- 82:396 --- 820 "13/16" --- 028-055.2 --- -English literature --- -Women --- -British literature --- -Women and literature --- -028-055.2 Vrouwelijke lezers --- Vrouwelijke lezers --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- French literature --- 820 "13/16" Engelse literatuur--?"13/16" --- Engelse literatuur--?"13/16" --- -History and criticism --- History and criticism --- -Books and reading --- -History --- -Bibliography --- 028-055.2 Vrouwelijke lezers --- Women authors&delete& --- Books and reading&delete& --- Great Britain --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Literature [Medieval ] --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Literatures --- Women and literature - Great Britain - History. --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism. --- Anglo-Norman literature - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Literature, Medieval - Women authors - History and criticism. --- English literature - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Women - Great Britain - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500. --- Women - Great Britain - Books and reading - History. --- Great Britain - Literatures. --- Literature, Medieval --- British literature. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Old English literature --- anno 1200-1499 --- Arts and Humanities --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- ENGLISH LITERATURE --- ANGLO-NORMAN LITERATURE --- MEDIEVAL LITERATURE --- GREAT BRITAIN --- HISTORY --- MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500 --- WOMEN AUTHORS