Participatory reading in late-medieval England

This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences’ agency, literary culture and media formats. Interactive reading offered writers ways to make readers work to their benefit, even as these practices enabled audiences to make reading work for themselves.

Heather Blatt is Associate Professor of English Literature at Florida International University

'I was impressed overall with Blatt's well written and thoughtful volume, seeing familiar texts in new ways and intrigued by ones that I did not know. It will be useful to scholars of Middle English both inside and outside of Digital Humanities.'
TMR

'Participatory Reading offers innovative contexts in which to understand late medieval writing; these are questions we absolutely should be thinking about, and Blatt’s intervention is an important one… the ideas here will no doubt influence how we continue to think and write about late medieval literary culture, and I very much look forward to seeing how this book shapes the ensuing conversation.'
Studies in the Age of Chaucer

'Its foregrounding of participation makes it a worthy addition to the scholarly literature on reading practices.'
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