TY - BOOK ID - 32822091 TI - Participatory reading in late-medieval England AU - Blatt, Heather AU - Blatt, Heather, PY - 2017 SN - 1526118009 1526117991 9781526118004 9781526118011 1526118017 PB - Manchester Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Reading KW - Literature and society KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Language arts KW - Elocution KW - Study and teaching KW - Literature KW - reading KW - readers KW - digital media KW - textuality KW - reading history KW - Chaucer KW - Lydgate KW - bodies or embodiment KW - time KW - movement or mobility KW - England KW - Geoffrey Chaucer KW - John Lydgate KW - Manuscript KW - Medieval literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32822091 AB - 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. ER -