Pilgrim and the Bee
We conventionally understand the book as a vessel for words, a place where the reader goes to have a private experience with written language. But readers'' relationships with books are much more complex. In The Pilgrim and the Bee, Matthew P. Brown examines book culture and the rituals of reading in early New England, ranging across almanacs, commonplace books, wonder tales, funeral elegies, serm...
We conventionally understand the book as a vessel for words, a place where the reader goes to have a private experience with written language. But readers'' relationships with books are much more complex. In The Pilgrim and the Bee, Matthew P. Brown examines book culture and the rituals of reading in early New England, ranging across almanacs, commonplace books, wonder tales, funeral elegies, serm...
