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<p>Centering her discussion on two historical "ways of reading"—which she calls the Protestant and the lettered—Barbara A. Johnson traces the development of a Protestant readership as it is reflected in the reception of Langland’s <i>Piers Plowman</i> and Bunyan’s <i>Pilgrim’s Progress.</i></p> <p>Informed by reader-response and reception theory and literacy and cultural studies, Johnson’s ambitious examination of these two ostensibly literary texts charts the cultural roles they played in the centuries following their composition, roles far more important than their modern critical reputations can explain.</p> <p>Johnson argues that much more evidence exists about how earlier readers read than has hitherto been acknowledged. The reception of <i>Piers Plowman,</i> for example, can be inferred from references to the work, the apparatus its Renaissance printer inserted in his editions, the marginal comments readers inscribed both in printed editions and in manuscripts, and the apocryphal "plowman" texts that constitute interpretations of Langland’s poem. She demonstrates by example that what is culturally transmitted has not been just the work itself; it includes vestiges of past rea

Author

Johnson PhD, Professor Barbara A

Publisher

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809316533

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities