Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England
by
Frances E. Dolan
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions. They also convey discoveries achieved through exploration or experiment. Contemporaries relied on such...