Thomas H. Crofts, Malory's Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England.(Book review)

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Thomas H. Crofts, Malory's Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006). 171 pp. ISBN 1-84384-085-5. 40.00 [pounds sterling].

Thomas H. Crofts's monograph proposes a reassessment of Malory's known first readership, that is the Winchester manuscript scribes, Caxton, and his first projected audience. Modern theoretical approaches are applied to Caxton's edition and Malory's text (Bourdieu, Nietzsche, Freud, Jacobson, Marx, Jameson, and Foucault), then combined with close textual and scribal readings. ...

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