Question

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New Forms of Publication New literary forms also entered the world of reading lyrics, short stories, essays about social and political matters. In different ways, they reinforced the new emphasis on human lives and intimate feelings, about the political and social rules that shaped such things.

To what extent do you agree that print opened up new worlds of experience and gave a vivid sense of diversity of human lives?

Answer 1

By the seventeenth century, print was no longer used just by scholarly officials. Merchants used print in their everyday life, as they collected trade information. Reading increasingly became a leisure activity. The new readership preferred fictional narratives, poetry, autobiographies, and romantic plays.