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Record 6201

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
"In Geneva on the Grand Tour ... [Robert] Boyle would continue to pursue 'above all the Reading of Romances,' and would become fluent in French from doing so."
Century: 1600-1699
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Robert Boyle
Age Unknown
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1627
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: French romances
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6201  
Source - Print  
  Author: Adrian Johns
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
  Place of Publication: Chicago
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 382
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 382, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6201, accessed: 29 April 2024

Additional comments:

Quotations from Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends, ed. M. Hunter (London, 1994) 15.

 

 

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