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Trade Review...this is a book which deserves close reading. * David Rundle, The English Historical Review *
an impressively learned book... Wakelin shows an intimate knowledge not only of the texts themselves but the specific copies in which they circulated. * James P. Carley, Times Literary Supplement *
an urbane and assiduous guide through a narrative that remains courageously true to the faltering beginnings, repeated dead ends, and often unclear aims that it recounts * Medium Aevum *
A comprehensive study...complemented by a long and reader-friendly bibliography...one of the many merits of this book is the range and richness of information it offers on a literary production spanning well over a century and including many forgotten or obscure works. * Alessandra Petrina, The Review of English Studies *
a wide-ranging, scholarly and thoroughly engaging book * Tamara Atkin, Notes and Queries *
Table of Contents1. Introduction: humanism as reading ; 2. Duke Humfrey and other imaginary readers ; 3. Allusion, translation and mistranslation ; 4. William Worcester and the commonweal of readers ; 5. Print and the reproduction of humanist readers ; 6. Eloquence, reason and debate ; 7. Some Tudor readers and their freedom
