History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their…
Discover the reading tastes and habits of famous writers in the past with this free course. Learn how to perform advanced searches on the UK RED site and enhance your evaluative and interpretative skills. Explore the connections between writers’ reading and their literary output for a deeper understanding of cultural and literary history.
Have you ever wondered about the reading tastes and habits of famous writers in the past? This free course, History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee, is the third tutorial in a series designed to help users of the UK Reading Experience Database (UK RED) search, browse and use this resource, and explores the connections between the evidence of a writers reading and their literary output. The previous tutorials focus on methods of uncovering evidence of reading, and the use of evidence to understand the reception of a literary text. UK RED is a resource built and maintained at The Open University.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Perform advanced searches of data held on the UK RED site, including locating evidence by place of reading experience or by combining search queries
Recognise development in evaluative and interpretative skills in handling a range of source material
Understand how evidence on the UK RED site might be useful in shaping broader studies of writers’ reading, biography, and cultural and literary history.
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