Abigail Williams

How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle, and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams...

How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of the past when they first met the uniquely elusive writings of the period. Abigail Williams...