“Choose a favourite poem/play/or prose work, or just a work that interests you in some way, from any historical period. Learn as much as you can about its publication, dissemination, reception, or other topics of the type we have studied in this course. (For example, a nineteenth-century novel might have been first published as a three-decker). Does this information about the material life of your work add to a scholarly analysis of its content? If so, in which ways? What does a book historical analysis offer to a student of literature, history, or culture”
What does a book historical analysis offer to a student of literature, history, or culture
