Evidence: | Adrian Johns notes how the school-aged Robert Boyle was advised to read romances [incuding "'the stale Adventures [of] Amadis de Gaule'"] as remedy for a "melancholic state" following a tertian ague: "Far from curing Boyle, he later testified, the stories 'prejudic'd him by unsettling his Thoughts ... accustom's his Thoughts to such a Habitude of Raving, that he hath scarce ever been their quiet Master since.'" |
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Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1627 and 1645 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Robert Boyle |
Age | Child (0-17) |
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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | romances including Amadis de Gaulle |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6199 | |
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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: | 380-81 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 380-81, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6199, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
Quotations from Robert Boyle, "Account of Philaretus in his Minority," in Robert Boyle by Himself and His Friends, ed. M. Hunter (London, 1994) 8-9. |
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