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affective literacy
Author_Myra Seaman
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conduct literature
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exemplary literature
History of Emotion
History of the Book
household book
medieval manuscript
medieval romance
MS Ashmole 61
New Materialism
Product details
- ISBN 9781526167187
- Weight: 349g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book’s pages – human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible – collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript’s material appeal in the ways it binds itself to different cultural, historical and material environments. In doing so it traces the affective literacy training that the manuscript provided its late-medieval English household, whose diverse inhabitants are incorporated into the ecology of the book itself as it fashions spiritually generous and socially mindful household members.
Myra Seaman is Professor of English at the College of Charleston
