Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

by Abigail Williams

How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read

Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams uses the marginal marks and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691170681
• ISBN13: 9780691170688
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"