Literacy and historical development : a reader

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Literacy and historical development : a reader

edited by Harvey J. Graff

Southern Illinois University Press, c2007

  • : pbk

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Bibliographical references: p. 417-439

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Literacy, myths, and legacies : lessons from the history of literacy / Harvey J. Graff
  • Literate and illiterate; hearing and seeing : England, 1066-1307 / Michael T. Clanchy
  • Some conjectures about the impact of printing on western society and thought : a preliminary report / Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
  • The importance of being printed / Anthony T. Grafton
  • Printing and the people: early modern France / Natalie Zemon Davis
  • Oral culture and the diffusion of reformation ideas / Robert Scribner
  • The literacy myth? illiteracy in Scotland, 1630-1760 / Rab Houston
  • First steps in literacy: the reading and writing experiences of the humblest seventeenth-century spiritual autobiographers / Margaret Spufford
  • The history of literacy in Sweden / Egil Johansson
  • Growth of literacy in colonial America: longitudinal patterns, economic models, and the direction of future research / Farley Grubb
  • Dimensions of illiteracy in England, 1750-1850 / Roger S. Schofield
  • "We slipped and learned to read": slave accounts of the literacy process, 1830-1865 / Janet Cornelius
  • Sense and sensibility: a case study of womens' reading in late-Victorian America / Barbara Sicherman
  • Sponsors of literacy / Deborah Brandt
  • "Welcome to the jam": popular culture, school literacy, and the making of childhoods / Anne Haas Dyson

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